Re: [glob2-devel] Threads ?

[Stephane Magnenat]

On Wednesday 11 May 2005 00.19, Nuage wrote:
> Hello, thank you for your interrest.
>
> >From a technical poit of view, we could still use sepatate threads and
>
> display every frame exactly once. The idea would be to start the displaying
> process just once the first computation step is finished, and to start the
> next displaying and computation process step only once both are finished.
>                __compute(1)__    __compute(2)__
> __compute(0)__/              \__/              \__
>               \__display(0)__/  \__display(1)__/  \__display(2)__/
>

This would only improve speed with several processors or hyperthreading. And 
in those case, glob2 already runs fast. And it would require implementing 
locking everywhere. Yes, it is feasible. No we won't do it until further 
notice ;-)

Steph