On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:03:47 -0500, Curtis wrote in message <BANLkTi=4NOqL3gOuagCYkBV==9v504v...@mail.gmail.com>:
> Just for the record, I would be pretty strongly opposed to adding a > thread for no particular benefit. In fact I think the threshold of > gained benefit needs to be pretty high to add another thread to the > code. Threads might seem simple at first, but they can hide nasty > bugs that are almost impossible to find. And even if the person > submitting the code has validated everything and it's perfect -- > inevitably, someone will come and make changes somewhere in the code > that affect the thread in some subtle way and we are back to having > almost impossible to find bugs. That doesn't mean we can't make a > big mess of non-threaded code too, but threads are 100 times easier > to screw up without realizing it until weeks or months later ... and > when there is a problem, the concurrency of threads can make it > extremely difficult to isolate where the bug actually is. ..ok, I volunteer for this stylish crash-n-burn so we can get back to the drawing board. ;o) > Regards, > > Curt. > > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Anders Gidenstam wrote: > > The small changes needed to add a separate GC thread are available > > here: http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/misc/test/sg-gc-2.diff > > http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/misc/test/fg-gc-1.diff ..how do I apply these 2 in my git tree? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
