27 Mar
2012
27 Mar
'12
2:05 a.m.
On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 09:37 +1300, Jeff McClintock wrote:
This should be tattooed on every newbie. ;)
Visualize your GUI running on a 64-bit iPad in Madrid, and your DSP running
on 32-bit Ubuntu in Seattle. Design your API accordingly.....
Indeed.
With respect to plugins, I deeply regret it's even *possible* to do
otherwise, but unfortunately sometimes reality gets in the way :)
-dr
"Shared data plus locking" is a pretty crap
model in general, really.
When people talk about all the complications that threads introduce,
they're really talking about this. Shared mutable state is the
cancer of
multi-threaded programming.