Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 10:53:57 12/18/01
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On December 18, 2001 at 12:32:43, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: > >Well, there is not portable way to poll in C either. So, if portability is an >issue, the question is which approach will give "better chances" to port it. >I do not think that doing it with threads is necessarily more difficult to port. >It depends very much on how it was implemented, I guess. The way I did it >I used only two functions that I should be able to find in any multithreaded >environment. One that launches the thread and another that waits to finish (so >one thread can wait to the other after sending a message (a global variable) >that a move has been entered etc.) >I am NOT an expert on this, but I guess that I should be able to port this >without much of a headache. I have't tried yet. > >Regards, >Miguel > You are absolutely right, my mistake. Both ways are non-portable. And since pthread libraries exists for almost everything, the portability is at least as good for threading than for non-threading in this case. /David
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