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On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 08:27:37PM -0600, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Threading is *really* scarey in a program of this magnitude. Even the > current threaded tile manager is a big time bomb waiting to happen. > We are getting away with doing stuff that's not guaranteed to work. > We've taken a lot of steps to try to minimize the potential problems, > but as the scenery and modeling gets more complex this problem is only > going to get worse. Well, I gather from your subtle hints <g> that the property manager is only used by the main thread at this time. That simplifies things a lot. > I'd be adverse to adding additional threading especially if it > involves something like the property manager. Actually it is fairly easy to make the property manager Thread Safe<tm>. All regular r/w locking can happen on a per-node basis, and can be encapsulated transparently. The property manager seems like an ideal candidate for IPC messaging, so if we want, it can be done. - -- Regards, "I RADIS, do you?" =Martin= http://www.iradis.org/ PGP: FE87448B DDF8 677C 9244 D119 4FE0 AE3A 37CF 3458 FE87 448B From: Martin van Beilen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] New subsystem: FGEnvironment In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 08:27:37PM -0600 X-S-Issue: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002/02/25 18:24:09 ec3e9cde4f3bf456ab66f6fa6ba31d85 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAjx6c0EACgkQN880WP6HRIvQQwCfWZVOC6Oj9jBVt56U3d+70PZe PugAn35OIGds3SrcdSfS+Es3DLWe7W8y =zugr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
