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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@tel...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] snarf buffers under P9P and synergy, acme vs rio
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:09:57 -0700

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Would that re-writing graphics single-threaded were in my life.
I'm doing the exact opposite right now - taking a single-threaded  
(3D) graphics engine and multi-threading it properly (I hope...) to  
run on multi-core architectures.  If you want weird races...  We have  
a little technology around not putting races in in the first place,  
but I find it difficult to trust that technology not to be buggy.

Paul

On 28-Sep-06, at 3:04 PM, Russ Cox wrote:

>> Magic words - "update in past two months."  I'm clearly much too
>> accustomed to software that isn't on a continuous improvement  
>> cycle :-)
>
> It's a rather discontinuous cycle, but I rewrote the
> graphics code to be single threaded on July 12,
> and that may have fixed a bunch of weird races.
>
> Russ

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