[linux-audio-dev] XAP and background processing

[David Olofson]

On Thursday 19 December 2002 21.24, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:19:46 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> > Nope, I'm not going to suggest a complete threading API here.
> > That - if it's ever going to be part of XAP - will have to way
> > until we know what we're doing. (Use pthreads for now. Just don't
> > get any ideas about toolkits and stuff...)
>
> Looks like more complexity to me :(

pthreads, or the worker call system?

It's just that if you use pthreads even for temporary background jobs 
(loading files and stuff), you'll force off-line hosts to be aware of 
if. The worker call API allows such hosts to simply call the worker 
callback right away. (I've posted example code for that earlier.)


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