12 Jun
2004
12 Jun
'04
2:58 a.m.
At Sat, 12 Jun 2004 00:10:17 -0400,
Paul Davis wrote:
One more point in favor of GThread I just figured out is config
testing for it. All you have to do is at a pkg-config check for
gthread-2.0 and your set. Having glanced through other programs,
checking for pthreads seems a bit more involved than I care to be
(read: not at all, I hate the fscking autotools). So, I think
I'll roll with GThread.
Thank you much for chiming in on this.
[pb]
Does anybody have any opinion on which threading
system is superior?
I've been using glib for a lot of things, but for whatever reason I'm
hesitant about using it for threading if the only benefit it will
provide is consistency (I'm guessing it's just a wrapper for pthread
anyway).
yes, its just a wrapper. there's nothing in the semantics of GThread
that isn't present in pthreads; conversely, pthreads does have a few
corners here and there that GThreads don't wrap because they don't
exist in some of the other thread systems that GThreads
supports. you're unlikely to need them. personally, i prefer to use
pthreads because its a fully specified standard that is independent of
any particular platform. otoh, there is a very similar argument for
GThread.