[OSRS-PROJ] Threadsafe question...

[Frank Warmerdam]

Judd Taylor wrote:
> Hello,
>     I'm new to the list and pretty new to Proj4 in general, so just let me
> know if I offend any etiquette of which I'm unaware.
> 
>     I've just finished writing an interface to the Proj4 library for Perl's
> PDL (Perl Data Language). The way I use the interface it to call pj_fwd on
> each value in large arrays (usually 1354x1010). Given that there are no data
> dependancies in the calculations, I'd like to multi-thread the interface to
> squeeze more performance out of our SMP machines. Is the C API to Proj4
> threadsafe?

Judd,

To the best of my knowledge PROJ.4 is safe for multi-threaded use with at
least these caveats:

  o The global proj.4 error variable could cause problems if some points fail.

  o The datum shifting code managed a "static" list of loaded grids, and could
    have problems used in a multi-threaded context.

If you are just using pj_fwd() and pj_inv() in multi-threaded form, and don't
need to capture error numbers properly you should be OK ... IMHO.

Best regards,
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