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- Subject: RE: [AD] demo of new timer API (unix only)
- From: "Robert Ohannessian" <ROhannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:27:41 -0700
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- Thread-topic: [AD] demo of new timer API (unix only)
>
> Er, some for, some against :-)
>
> As part of the new API, I'm fine with it. But any cross-platform
thread
> API is going to be very common denominator -- useful, sure, but we
must
> allow room for users to use native thread APIs instead. Low coupling
> between various parts of the API is a good goal anyway.
Allegro has some threading API internally (looking at the system driver
vtables). Perhaps exposing this would be enough?