threaded processing

[Stefan van der Walt]

Is it possible to use threads under Octave?  I have a particular
application in mind:

A colour RGB image consists of red, green and blue components.  When
processing such an image, one often needs to do the exact same
calculations on each of the three components.  Often, we now find
computers with more than one CPU inside (Hyperthreaded etc.), which
would boost the performance of such an algorithm if it could execute 3
parallel branches.

Would it be safe to use libpthreads or some similar library with
octave to obtain this?

Regards
Stefan



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