Re: [Help-glpk] xmalloc, thread-safety

[Oscar Gustafsson]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> To make glpk thread-safe you need to provide two platform-specific
> routines lib_set_ptr and lib_get_ptr (see src/glplib03.c). By default
> these routines store a pointer in the static memory, and currently
> only a version for the windows dll is implemented.
How hard is it to make a parallel version of GLPK at the moment? It seems 
like the new functionality in 4.20 and 4.21 may be directed towards that? 
Are there any plans to provide a parallel GLPK?

(Naturally, it is hard to make an efficient one, but let's say a parallel 
MILP solver which uses different branching rules in different threads.)

/Oscar