[gmpi] Re: multithreading host interface
- From: Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 07:32:07 -0400
>[...]
>> Another plugin might use a ring buffer for sending data to
>> the processing thread. Ringbuffers can be implemented in a way that they
>are
>> thread safe without the use of critical regions.
>
>This is not portable.
as extensively discussed over on lad (and probably lots of other
places too), yes it is, assuming single-reader/single-writer. it
doesn't require anything except an atomic read/write type capable of
storing the ringbuffer size. i don't know why you think otherwise -
you've never raised this on lad as far as i recall ....
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