Re: [Libmesh-devel] Tetrehedron refinement

[Roy S. <roy...@ic...>]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, John Peterson wrote:

> Does a read/write static variable raise any question of thread safety?

Yes.  Fortunately, we already use enough such variables that libMesh
is not thread-safe, so adding one more won't kill us.

And actually, I'm not sure how much of an improvement multi-threading
would get us.  A thread is just a process that shares a lot of memory,
and we're already multi-process.  Right now, of course, it would be
very nice to have only one Mesh in memory per motherboard rather than
one Mesh per CPU core - but after we distribute the Mesh class, that
won't be a serious problem.
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Roy