Re: Thread safety in games

[Magnus Norddahl <mbn@dark.x.dtu.dk>]

Quoting Dan Kegel (dank@alumni.caltech.edu):

> > Yup, this is also the way ClanLib's internal threads communicate. The
> > external interface to ClanLib however is single threaded - and I believe it
> > should stay that way. All display, sound and network threads should belong
> > to the libs used by the game.
> 
> Not sure what you mean - I assume you mean that ClanLib methods
> are not thread-safe, right?  i.e. only one of the game's threads
> should be calling the ClanLib routines at a time?

Yep, and I don't think that the game need more than one thread to run the game
and draw the graphics.

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Magnus Norddahl
ClanSoft