The following are some of the best practices specific to Thread-programming:
Ensure your program locks small segments or specific
fields of a program segment to increase concurrency in execution.
Ensure that your locks always obtain synchronization
control in an order that does not cause race condition.
Minimize locking instances so you can reduce the overhead
that might result from frequent synchronization efforts.
Minimize critical sections that might result in longer
waits for other threads.
Reduce the number of nested function calls so you
avoid errors resulting from stack overflow.
Consider writing a recursive function in an iterative
form, as sometimes an iterative function demonstrates greater resource
efficiency than a recursive function.
Minimize the size and number of the stack local variables
to reduce the stack usage of a thread.
Allocate large data items dynamically in a heap than
in arrays to ensure that stack utilization does not exceed the allocated
or default percentage.
