Any thread can take control of the user interface and can call COM and ActiveX objects. Monitoring performance With some graphical programs, you can improve program performance if you know where your program is spending its time. Benchmarks Meaningful benchmarks can be difficult to establish. Certain programs may excel at certain tasks, but those tasks might not relate to the real-world test applications you are running. Read our special Web supplement to this article.
Manufacturers hotly debate the merits of the two approaches.
Not so, counter proponents of data-flow programs. VEE Pro User's Guide, Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA, 2000. Rick Nelson received a BSEE degree from Penn State University. He has six years experience designing electronic industrial-control systems. As far as answer 2 goes, keep in mind that program execution times for most applications on today's PCs are insignificant with respect to measurement times, in both the development environment and the run-time environment.