Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++multipass.engr.sgi.com)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 14:05:17 -0700
Sounds like you may be able to do what you need in the application of any
forked process without resorting to the complexitied of pfBuffer::merge.
Cheers,Angus.
On Jul 24, 3:07pm, DONKERS H.C. wrote:
> Subject: DBASE process
> Hi pfFriends,
>
> As I understand if you want to do database paging in a seperae
> process, you should use the DBASE process.
>
> But is this also a good idea to use this when doing high frequency,
> small modifications to the scene?
>
> --
> I would like to have to seperate processes editing two distinct part
> of the scene. This editing is highly frequent on both processes, but
> they don't interfere with each others part of the scene.
> Now I understand that I can't just do this in seperate processes,
> because then the pfFrame (called from yet another process) is bound
> to crash.
> But my believe is (just a thought; no experience yet) that using the
> DBASE process for both processes, will give me a considerable
> overhead. Is this true, or am I mistaken somewhere along the line of
> reason.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Kurt
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