Re: pfMultithread -- PFPROC_CULL

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Thomas M. Miller (miller++at++acusoft.com)
Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:26:02 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Bernard Leclerc wrote:

> Thomas,
>
> The geostate table set through pfChannel::setGStateTable() is private to the
> channel and will be handled properly by the CULL stage even when
> multithreading. What the man page is telling you is to pay attention to data
> shared by callbacks especially if those callbacks are setting node attributes.
> For instance if the CULL callback associated with a light source calls
> pfLightSource::on() or ::off(), this will certainly affect the other channel
> being culled in parallel.

I was unaware of pfChannel::setGStateTable() I was using
pfGeoState::applyTable( GeoStateTable ); in the CULL callback
which dosen't seem to be private.

Thank you

        Thomas Miller.
                        --TMIV
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