Re: threads

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Ian Strascina <istrasci cs nmsu edu> writes:

> 1 - use GDK threads (as per
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Threads.html)
>
> 2 - using c++ classes, e.g. those within the Glib namespace -- 
> Glib::{Thread,Mutex,...}  (as per
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/group__Threads.html)
>
>
> Is either of these methods better than the other, or are they similar
> (perhaps even display a "wrapper-wrappee" relationship)...???

Well, I've never used the threading stuff, but some of it appears to
be in glib as you can see here

  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/index.html

and some of it in GDK. So I'd say that the Glib:: stuff is just
wrappers.

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/