I also think it is a good idea. AFAIK, the pthread implementation
on Windows is a bit like a wrapper to native threads, so I guess there
is no penalty there. I have used it in the past and it all seemed to work
fine for me.

Victor
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Yi" 
To: "Michael Gogins" ; "Developer discussions" 

Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Multi-threading


> Hi Michael,
>
> I have no objections but I also am not familiar with what overhead, if
> any, there would be to use pthreads on Windows versus the native
> Windows system calls.  I do agree it would simplify development if we
> stuck to one threading system on all operations systems.  Maybe we
> should plan to use pthreads on Windows now and we should just check if
> any performance issues arise from it.
>
> BTW: I'm in the middle of moving across town here in Berkeley and have
> not been doing much devleopment work or music work the past month or
> so due to complications with the current apartment, but am planning to
> get back to working on both Csound and blue after the move
> tonight/tomorrow.  So I am very glad to hear that you are pursuing the
> Windows pthreads and will hopefully join your effort for parallel
> csound shortly!
>
> Thanks very much Michael!
> steven
>
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Michael Gogins  
> wrote:
>> This is regarding Steven Yi's preliminary implementation of 
>> multi-threading multiple instances of instrument templates in Csound. 
>> This currently uses pthreads. Right now, threading on Windows for Csound 
>> uses native Windows threads. It would simplify completion of 
>> multi-threading if Csound on Windows also uses pthreads (there are freely 
>> available LGPL pthreads libraries for Windows which in fact are already 
>> being used for other purposes in Windows Csound).
>>
>> If there are no objections, I will change all threading in Windows Csound 
>> from native Windows system calls to pthreads. That should enable 
>> evaluation, testing, and perhaps even use of the multi-threaded 
>> instrument templates in Windows Csound.
>>
>> This also would slightly simplify the maintenance of Csound.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
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