FIrst multi-threaded app
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| Here is my first multi-threaded app written in BlitzMax 1.32. It's a .dds batch converter with lots of cool options like mask correction and faded mipmaps. Thanks to Benjamin Rössig for his help with the threading stuff. Source is included. About a 60% improvement in performance was seen on a quad core when threading was used. Gains were much more significant as the number of threads was increased. I ended up using a number of threads equal to the CPU core count times 8. |
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| Hi Leadworks, wow that's some increase in speed, is there a simple way to check the Core/HyperThread count? Do you think a game could take advantage of this e.g. Thread each for Input, AI, Graphics, Sound? |
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| Hi Leadworks I checked your code nice one so the call to GetSystemInfo returns the number of CPU's! |
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| [EDIT] Posted to the wrong thread. I think the website mixed up my post, as I had different tabs opened. But it could have been humand error indeed.... Posted on Safari 4.0.2 |
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| So you were using 32 threads. Nice coding btw. I'm trying to get my head around threads and this is helping out immensely. Thanks. |
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