[ptx] Enblend 2.x multithreaded?

[Andrew C Mihal]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Lars Schimmer wrote:

> Is there a easy way to get enblend multithreaded?
> I've got a dual Xeon server here, so if enblend could use this 4 CPUs at once,
> the workflow would be much faster.

The Xblend people have some basic multithreading support in their branch.

http://www.kekus.com/xblend/

I believe they are using a Mac OSX-specific multithreading library. There 
are many places where multithreading could be used to improve performance. 
To exploit it you would have to write a lot of code though.

Andrew

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