On Monday, April 30, 2012 9:13:42 AM UTC+2, Monkey wrote: > > I did try multi-threading it in a couple of places, but maybe it was doing > it wrong because it didn't make it any quicker. That was with native > Windows multithreading - unfortunately Microsoft don't want you to use > OpenMP with Visual C++ Express, which is the only option now multiblend is > multi-platform.
Fortunately, cross-compiling using MXE is pretty easy as I've shown in another thread [0, 1]. I haven't actually tried compiling anything with OpenMP enabled using this approach, but I don't think it should be too much of a hassle. And there's a great support community there so if I need help all I need to do is ask. [0] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/hugin-ptx/-3-i9ynuCig [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hugin-ptx/JPiViZQ-Ycw/4ygfvPVq4hgJ > Besides which, the seaming algorithm can't be multithreaded (at least not > easily), and that and image loading are usually the two slowest parts. > > David > > On Monday, April 30, 2012 7:24:32 AM UTC+1, GnomeNomad wrote: >> >> Thanks, I thought it was multi-threaded. >> >> On 04/28/2012 11:41 PM, Monkey wrote: >> > The same benefit it has on any system - it's quicker (but not better) >> > than Enblend :). The "multi" in multiblend doesn't have anything to do >> > with multicore processing - it's (currently) single-threaded. >> > >> > On Sunday, April 29, 2012 1:26:16 AM UTC+1, GnomeNomad wrote: >> > >> > What benefit does multiblend have on uniprocessor systems? >> >> -- >> Gnome Nomad >> gnomeno...@gmail.com >> wandering the landscape of god >> http://www.clanjones.org/david/ >> http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/ >> http://www.cafepress.com/otherend/ >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
