We've tested the PDL pthread support with "POSIX Threads (pthreads) for Win32" at http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/ . It is nice because it allows PDL computations to make use of multicore processors for calculations. Always nice to see those factors of 2X, 4X, 6X, or more in speedup....
--Chris On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Sisyphus <sisyph...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "kmx" > >> As for the future gcc-4.6.2 toolchain there is also an interesting >> question about including pthreads or winpthreads support as PDL is AFAIK >> somohow able to handle threads this way (not sure if this is valid for >> Win32) > > Yes, pthreads works with PDL on Win32. > There's a crash in one of PDL's pthread test scripts that needs to be sorted > out, but the basic functionality seems to be fine. > > Cheers, > Rob >
