But are there dedicated functions in the engine to do multithreading, or
should I include myself the thread libraries (win and linux) ?
AFAIK, there isn't anything in the Half-Life or Half-Life engine that is
threaded (and the engine API routines aren't thread safe). If you are
trying to make a plugin that has multiple threads you will need to
implement your own system of locking (i.e. semaphores or mutexes) to
insure that no more than one engine API call is happening at the same
time in the context of that plugin.
Snif...
Ok, I'll implement threads myself...
Maybe the Valve developpers may think about Thread implementation, to let
coders use threads in their mods/plugins. Because the first problem I've
found for thread coding is that thread implementation in linux and windows
are VERY different... So if the engine could give some Thread primitives, it
may be better (I mean thread_start, thread_stop,thread_yield, and basic
mutex functions)...
Damien
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