[SDL] SDL_CreateThread with C++ method as a parameter

[Edward Cullen]

Hi,

I'm curious to know if you're coming to SDL/C++ from Java.

I was taught OO-programming with Java and it would seem that you're 
hitting some of the same conceptual stumbling blocks I came across when 
I started to do non-trivial programming in C++...

On the assumption that you ARE coming at it from Java, I have some 
thoughts that may help you:

C++ isn't Java, that is, the object models in Java and C++ are 
different. Java's object model is more 'pure' that C++'s, but that comes 
at a HUGE cost (i.e. computational overhead and about 2x the memory 
requirements).

This is difference in object models is especially true when you start 
mixing C++ and C. It's not nice, it's not pretty (C++ is probably the 
worst language aesthetically - after VB LOL), but it's cheap - ie, you 
get what you get with as little overhead as possible... and you don't 
get a compiler that thinks it's cleverer than you (my #1 gripe with 
Java...).

Just to stick up for SDL: I think that you'll find that all the 
threading libraries out their do more-or-less the same things, in the 
same ways. This is because 99% of them are C-based (because it's 
generally more cross-platform than C++) and the theory behind threading 
is pretty well understood - there are only so many ways of managing 
threads. Incidentally, the SDL Threads API is VERY neat and tidy at 
about 20 funcs, compared to the Pthreads (OS-level) API which is about 5 
times larger! So, essentially, the problem here is in the way C and C++ 
interact, rather than with the fundamental design of the SDL APIs (not 
that I'm saying they can't be improved).

Every C++ programmer I've ever talked about has raved about Myers' 
"Effective C++" and I have to agree. I personally found Stroustrup's own 
"The C++ Programming Language" very informative too. Get them out of the 
library and re-visit the problem.

Eddy

PS3-690 wrote:
> Since I can't solute the problem, I'll use a another library for threads.
> 
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