[openbeos] Re: app_server: MMX/SSE help wanted

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:19:31 +0200 CEST

"Scott Donaldson" <a_nqe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for such a quick reply, so what thread libary should I use? At 
> the 
> moment I'm not running BeOS but I have plans to install it in the 
> near 
> future and I want as much portability in my code as possible.
> 
> Are the basic pthread_create and pthread_join functional? Because at 
> the 
> moment I really only need the most basic of threading (I'm just 
> learning to 
> use threading).
> 
> I'm entirely tied to Solaris 9, FreeBSD 4.9 & FreeBSD 5.2 for 
> developing so 
> which ever libaries I use they need to be usable on either of those 
> platforms.

While it's true that pthreads is not complete for BeOS, for simple 
things it should do fine. In the end, it's even available as open 
source, so if you're really missing something, you can often easily add 
it.

Bye,
   Axel.


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