[Bf-committers] SOC Project Ideas?

[Chris Want]

Scott Johnson wrote:
> I noticed on the SOC project ideas page that one of the ideas mentioned 
> involved added thread capabilities to radiosity rendering.  I am very 
> interested in this idea, but I am wondering what it would consist of.  
> Namely, my previous work with threading was that it was fairly 
> implementation (i.e. OS) dependent (not the thread code itself, but the 
> mutex code necessary to make sure synchronization is achieved).  I 
> assume that a student who took on this project would more than likely be 
> responsible for implementing mutex/thread code for all platforms, is 
> this accurate?
> 
> ~Scott

Hi Scott,

I'm no threading guru, but I think blender already has a cross-platform
pthreads wrapper in source/blender/blenlib/intern/threads.c.
The raytracer uses it.

Regards,
Chris