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| 4 | Thread safety was introduced in Mesa 2.6 by John Stone and |
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| 7 | It was redesigned in Mesa 3.3 so that thread safety is |
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| 9 | that is). There is no measurable penalty on single |
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| 10 | threaded applications. |
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| 12 | NOTE that the only _driver_ which is thread safe at this time |
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| 18 | 2) Solaris / Unix International threads. |
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| 19 | 3) Win32 threads (Win 95/NT). |
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| 21 | Support for other thread libraries can be added src/glthread.[ch] |
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| 26 | So, if your application uses Sun's thread API, then you should build Mesa |
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| 27 | using one of the targets for Sun threads. |
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| 29 | The mtdemos directory contains some example programs which use |
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| 32 | Linux users should be aware that there exist many different POSIX |
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| 34 | (http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/) as this package is the |
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| 35 | only one that really supports multiprocessor machines (AFAIK). See |
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| 36 | http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/README for further |
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| 37 | information about the usage of linuxthreads. |
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| 39 | If you are interested in helping with thread safety work in Mesa |
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| 45 | Christoph Poliwoda -- poliwoda@volumegraphics.com |
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| 50 | Mesa 3.3 - thread support mostly rewritten (Brian Paul) |
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