Re: pfGetSharedArena question?

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Greg Edwards, SGI UK. (gedwards++at++cordoba.reading.sgi.com)
Wed, 31 Jan 1996 17:46:26 +0000

On Jan 31, 5:27pm, Nuno Godinho wrote:
> Subject: pfGetSharedArena question?
> Hi. I'm using Performer 1.2 and can't seem to fully understand how shared
memory
> works in Performer.
>
> Here goes:
>
> -Does it make sense to call pfGetSharedArena() more than once?
> -Some examples I saw call Shared=pfGetSharedArena() at the initialization and
> then just use Shared wherever they need it. Both approaches work, right?
>
> thanks
> Nuno
>
>-- End of excerpt from Nuno Godinho

Yep, it's just a pointer to an address. pfGetSharedArena() will give you the
same answer every time, or you can remember it yourself and save a few
microseconds of function call overhead.

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