You need to have a rigourous understanding of how to ensure correctness. You need to have the right disciplines in place, notably in access to shared data. (Does anyone know how Cinelerra does that now?) Othewise it gets too hard to debug. But it's not that anyone likes threads, it's more that they are a necessity.
I don't think file loading needs a separate thread, except for clips and other assets, which take a long time to load. On 25/08/07, Mark Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Martin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hopefully, you just need FICL running in its own thread. > > You guys really like your threads, n'est pas? I have a feeling that > they'll be too hard for me to understand, though. I like to approach things > from the angle of simplicity and debuggability. I think debuggability is > really important. An application which can't be debugged > > Actually, I've been boning up on the difference between threads and > processes. From what I gather, threads use the same address space (if that's > the right terminology), whereas processes are very much a client-server > model. > > Processes may be inappropriate for FICL, because I think it will need > access to everything. However, the general idea of using processes seems a > good one - and this is something that I'd like the guys working on cin3 to > think about. Thinking in terms of processes seems to encourage thinness in > the API - and it might also help modularise things and think in terms of > protocols. Take file loading, for example. Does it even need to be built > into Cinelerra, for example? If you could separate it out of the main app, > then you could get benefits of independent testing from a command line - > because it's a client-server relationship. And if there's a bug in the file > loader, it can't bring down the whole app. Good things seem to flow from the > idea of using processes. > > Just my 2c. Please don't flame me if my technical details are wrong - I > freely admit I'm new to all this. > > > > > ------------------------------ > Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Try it > now<http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU> > . > -- Regards, Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IT: http://methodsupport.com Personal: http://thereisnoend.org
