On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:13:24PM +0100, Oliver Stieber wrote:
> We could do that, or we could signal the other thread an tell it to release
> the context which
> should cut down on the context switching, I'm not sure how easy that would be
> to setup (it doesn't
> seem possible using even objects because the thread has to be waiting)
Well, the 'signal' option is (AFAIK) what Transgaming does in Cedega to fix
the issue.
> Another option would be to create a new context that shares resources with
> the other contexts and
> copy over the state from the old context to the new one.
And this is what I planned to implement when the I have the motivation and
the time (discussed about it on IRC with a guy some time ago trying to find
the best way to do that).
I may try it one of these days for some specific cases (like for Dungeon
Siege) and if it works, generalize to all cases.
Lionel
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