Re: [GtkGLExt] Multithreading vs glXMakeCurrent()

[Norbert Schultz <norbert schultz insa-lyon fr>]

Ah thanks,

Weird, 3D Graphics API with no multithreading support in 21th century ;) I 
will put it alltogether in one worker thread.

Greetings,
Nob

On Tuesday, 4. March 2008, you wrote:
> Multithreading with opengl is a bad idea, but only because of drivers
> using tls (thread local storage).    Nvidia's driver is one such driver
> and a context can only be access/manipulated in the thread that created
> it.  Essentially this means you must communicate with an opengl
> drawing/managing thread using message passing.  The whole multithreading
> topic really leads to a nightmarish situation and difficult debugging
> given the sad state of affairs with many video card drivers, so if you
> want your program to run reliably on different computers, run all the
> direct gui code in a single thread.  You might consider using processes
> instead of threads even, then tls cannot be an issue.
>
> Norbert Schultz wrote:
> > [.. Multithreading with nVidia drivers ..]