Performer within Multi-threaded Applications

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David Higginbotham (dhigginb++at++motown.lmco.com)
Tue, 6 May 1997 13:41:42 -0400

We have an large multi-threaded application that gathers and computes
data for a shipboard combat system. This program is divided into several
threads such as real-time data gathering, simulation, display, etc.

Right now the display thread is implemented using OpenGL. Our app has
ability to use either sproc() or Posix threads, selectable at compile
time. In either case global memory is automatically shared among all
threads - the Unix brand of shared memory is not used.

We would like to use Performer to implement the display thread. The
question is, what complications can arise by generating a Performer
application as a thread in a larger system? Will this interfere with
Performer's multi-processing and shared memory? Any advice on the best
way to do such an integration?

Thanks in advance.

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