Re: [Flightgear-users] [Plib-users] Multithreading in FG

[Ampere K. H. <amp...@sy...>]

On Monday 28 August 2006 17:42, steve wrote:
> I havn't given much thought to threading alternate frames - the
> reason being that the increase in latency is not worth the savings
> in frame time. =A0I design flight simulators for a living - and the
> fight to keep latency down is at least as important as the fight to
> keep frame rates up.
>
> Nothing in PLIB was ever designed for threading - so expect a LOT
> of things to break!
>
> Sadly, you are on your own on this one - this is not a path I'm
> interested in treading - it's a steep and twisty path and it's
> leading in the wrong direction.
>
> Good luck!

Agreed.  FlightGear is not written with threading in mind.  Neither does=20
Simgear or plib.  This mean none of them are thread safe.  Splitting the=20
mainloop into two is definately not going to work.  You are going to have t=
o=20
rewrite the entire application.

Ampere