[DGD] Multithreaded Version

[Joshua P. Dady]

On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 06:33  PM, Ben Chambers wrote:
> So is TLS a feature of the kernel or a feature of DGD?

TLS is a generic programming concept, implemented in this case in the 
kernel mudlib.

> Does it *HAVE* to be implemented as part of the driver object and auto 
> object, or can it be safely left out until after the multi-threaded 
> version of DGD has been
> released?

You can leave out whatever you like.  Personally, I would recommend 
implementing it now and using it where needed for forward compatibility 
(which is not to say that I've been doing much of this at Igor).  An 
obvious example being the 2.4.5 efun this_player() - there's no 
compelling reason for changing a working implementation of 
this_player() now, other than that a TLS based implementation would 
support parallelism and storing it in an object variable somewhere 
would not.

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Joshua P. Dady

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