On 20 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi, > >>"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jason> Was just thinking, > > Jason> How do you all feel about threads? > > They are an integral part of how I earn my living. Do you > think that Deity will benefit from being multi-threaded? I don't > think that the hassles of the synchronization primitives that would > need to get added offset the benefits -- actally, for such an event > (user interaction, mostly) driven product, I fail to see tangible > benefits. Well, there are portions that are not event driven and it seems to be simpler to use threads for those bits. Ie consider generating the cache file, that is quite a lengthy operation and deserves a dialog, but I can't do that without either spawning another program and setting up a pipe or using a thread. There are a few other instances where using a thread might clean things up, esp in the dowloading section, it's hard to say till you arrive :| With GUI's it is usefull to have the main rendering section in it's own thread so computation doesn't cause the UI to be unresponsive. I'm not sure if we are going to have that much that warrents such attention. I've done a fair amount with threads before, but generally only in cases where there is a single point of synconization, I'm not sure what a full widget set would end up being like if it were thread-safe/threaded. Jason
