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Re:Haiku OS ported and running on RISC-V by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:53AM (#27131760)
cooperative multitasking, no memory protection, can't take advantage of multiple cores, and very much tied to the ARM architecture?
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Re:Haiku OS ported and running on RISC-V by pjmlp on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:07PM (#27131904)
Has Haiku already improved the crash friendly in multihreaded code experience, and software rendering from BeOS?
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Re:Haiku OS ported and running on RISC-V by memsom on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:49AM (#27152198)
Yes. There are ports of Qt 5 for example, so you can avoid the BeAPI layer and write code that is portable. You shouldn't, but you can. The Qt/QML code is standard and all the threading and BLooper/BLocker dance is not a "thing" when you use it. But, these days, multithreading is a lot more prevalent so I don't think modern programmers have such an issue with it. I write multithreaded code all the time.
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