[Gdal-dev] Re: Error handler threading suggestion

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 7/25/05, Chris G. Nicholas <cgn at globexplorer.com> wrote:
> In what multithreaded scenarios do people actually envision using GDAL? Is this all about FastCGI?
> 
> Or are people on a quest to make the CPU and I/O intensive routines of GDAL truly multithreaded, in the sense that they might scale linearly with available resources? (of course, subject to underlying library restrictions of things like ECW, MrSid, Kakadu, Proj4, etc etc)

Chris, 

I can't speak for everyone, but the intent is to implement a server of
some sort that can have multiple threads active reading from a variety of
files with some degree of scalability.   

In some cases folks aren't as concerned about the scalability of GDAL
and ensuring that it can be safely used in existing multi-threaded
applications.  

Best regards,
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