Is pipe an effiecient way for communication between threads?

[Wenrich]

is it fast, reliable? What are the cases it is must suitable for and what are the cases it shouldn't be used? Thanks a lot! Wenrich

[Carlos Antollini]

I am using pipes for comunicate threads in a security system And I never had problems with that... Best Regards... Carlos Antollini. Pi Five[^]Creator Sonork ID 100.10529 cantollini

[Joe Woodbury]

It's a terrible, and extremely inefficient, way to communicate between threads. A semaphore based queue will be the most efficient general solution. If complex synchronization isn't needed, or we're talking just mainting state information, using CriticalSections or the Interlocked... calls is sufficient.

[valikac]

Name pipe is a good solution for communication between multiple processes. For communication between threadings I recommend CRITICAL_SECTION, mutex, event, and sephamore. Kuphryn