Thanks for responding - I will take a look at the new features provided by proxying.h. That header didn't exist when I last looked into Emscripten's multi-threading support. The emscripten_(a)sync_run_in_main_runtime_thread functions work equally well for me at this point. On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 2:50:40 AM UTC+10 s...@google.com wrote:
> I think the solution is to use the > `emscripten_sync_run_in_main_runtime_thread` family of functions. I've > opened a PR to remove the (as you point out, currently unusable/broken) > `emscripten_sync_run_in_main_thread` family. > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 8:14 AM 'Thomas Lively' via emscripten-discuss < > emscripte...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> It looks like there was some unintentional breakage of >> `emscripten_sync_run_in_main_thread` in December. I left a comment on the >> relevant PR: >> https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/pull/15756#issuecomment-1400603196 >> . >> >> That being said, the best way to send work to other threads these days is >> using the proxy queue mechanism in proxying.h >> <https://emscripten.org/docs/api_reference/proxying.h.html>. These new >> APIs are safer to use to proxy nontrivial work, give you more control over >> when work is executed, and give you more control over how you wait for the >> work to be done. FWIW, the older `emscripetn_async_run_in_main_thread` and >> other proxying APIs in threading.h have been internally reimplemented in >> terms of proxying.h as well. >> >> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 5:16 PM Mark Sibly <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I've been using emscripten_async_run_in_main_runtime_thread for 6 >>> months or so now and it works great for me. >>> >>> I do feel this stuff needs to be better docced, emscripten.org has >>> nothing about threading in the API reference section, I feel like there >>> should at least be a 'threading.h' page in there? There's some useful stuff >>> in 'Wasm Workers API' (that's where searching for >>> emscripten_async_run_in_main_runtime_thread takes me) although I've >>> need used a 'Wasm Worker' so this feels like the wrong place to be looking >>> for info on threading. >>> >>> Bye! >>> Mark >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to emscripten-disc...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/3b303b63-4008-49f0-bb8b-f48a8c0b294fn%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/3b303b63-4008-49f0-bb8b-f48a8c0b294fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "emscripten-discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to emscripten-disc...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/CAJZD_EUaJ%2BWiBT2abCVscMm5WXAGJ35g8jk8p1qOobiGF%3DjKJw%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/CAJZD_EUaJ%2BWiBT2abCVscMm5WXAGJ35g8jk8p1qOobiGF%3DjKJw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to emscripten-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/5077ea73-b578-455c-8ff5-069e228aa125n%40googlegroups.com.
