Re: [Bug-gnubg] Main window blocked whilst analysing

[Holger]

At 00:04 10.12.2003, Jim Segrave wrote:
> On Tue 09 Dec 2003 (20:53 +0000), Richard Buckle wrote:
> > At 12:57 pm +0100 9/12/03, Ralph Stoesser wrote:

> [multi-threading and concurrent analysis and GUI use]

> I may seem like a fanatic on this subject, but connecting to one or
> more analysis processes via network sockets is far better than
> multi-threading - it works on single CPU, multi CPU and of course
> clusters of machines. It scales to match the number of machines you
> want to tie up. It is free of locking issues. And, best of all, it's
> easier to implement than almost any other approach.

Olivier has implemented and combined both features, sockets and 
multi-threading, in the branch gnubg-multi. It ought to run well on 
Unix-like systems. The only little spot is that he currently uses polling 
to see whether any socket or thread has data putting a high load on the 
server gnubg when it doesn't have anything to do, too. Well, and then 
there's Windows, where it almost works. ;-) But somehow the threads don't 
return ( also those listening to external sockets).

Regards,

        Holger