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From: Ben Chambers
Subject: Threading library in 3.7 beta?
Date: 17 Nov 2006 20:35:45
Message: <455e6371@news.povray.org>

What threading library does POV-Ray use for the 3.7 SMP beta?  I was 
looking at OpenMP recently, until I found out that VC Express doesn't 
support it (and I don't have $300 for the Pro version) {funny they don't 
mention that explicitly ANYWHERE, even though the "Project Options" have 
an option to enable it}.  That started me looking for a different 
library, which turned up pthreads, Pth, Zth, Ptr, and a few others.

This question could be considered off-topic, but as POV-Ray is one of 
the best pieces of software I know of, and recently began to be 
threaded, I thought it would be useful to get the developers' views on 
threading and the available libraries.

...Chambers

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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Threading library in 3.7 beta?
Date: 17 Nov 2006 22:18:52
Message: <455e7b9c$1@news.povray.org>

Ben Chambers wrote:
> What threading library does POV-Ray use for the 3.7 SMP beta?

Boost's, plus our own patch to change the stack size.

	Thorsten

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From: George Pantazopoulos
Subject: Re: Threading library in 3.7 beta?
Date: 18 Nov 2006 09:30:01
Message: <web.455f185b967e002dc0bad8570@news.povray.org>

Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> Ben Chambers wrote:
> > What threading library does POV-Ray use for the 3.7 SMP beta?
>
> Boost's, plus our own patch to change the stack size.
>

Interesting. I also use Boost in MegaPOV XRS :-)

George
http://www.gammaburst.net

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