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Subject: Re: Approaches to threading

Author: Eric Oldre

Date: 13:18:04 06/16/04

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On June 16, 2004 at 13:27:43, Sean Empey wrote:


>Storm is actually designed to search using as many threads as set or as many
>detected CPU's on the machine. It's a SMP program. The first versions did not
>utilize SMP and I didn't have any issues running Storm on a quad. The IO and
>worker thread worked fine as it did on a single processor machine. Anthony may
>have implemented it completely different than I did, so had more problems. I
>can't say though as I'm not familiar with his implementation. I have structures
>and flags that get set within the worker thread and when it finishes I do stuff
>based on those flags.
>
>Sean

Thanks for all the advice Sean, I think i'll go ahead and give the
multi-threaded approach a try. Hopefully everything will go smooth, although i
expect at least a few stumbles before getting it working right.

Eric



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