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It is my pleasure to announce the availability of OmniThreadLibrary 3.0 beta. The main focus of this release is on the 64-bit support. Every part of OmniThreadLibrary is now compatible with the Windows 64-bit platform!

The current status of the code is “It works on my machine”. That is not pretty encouraging and I would really like to see some external testing. If you are using OTL, please get the fresh copy from the SVN and check if your applications are still working. 64-bit bugs are not a big problem right now – they will be squashed before any 64-bit OTL code goes into production – but I’d really like not to break existing code. Thanks!

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Thread pool is working, other tests are passing nicely and it looks like you’ll be able to get your hands on the alpha version tomorrow.

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Second milestone reached – dynamic lock-free queue works in 64 bits as does blocking collection. The latter is basis for most high-level threading abstractions in the OmniThreadLibrary so this is quite an important milestone.

Thread pool was not tested yet so the code is still in “look but don’t touch state”.

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First milestone reached!

“Bounded” containers (fixed-size stack and queue) are now working fine both in 32- and 64- bits!

This is quite an important step because those containers are used to transfer data between OTL controllers and threads (i.e. they are used inside the Comm mechanism). They also contained quite some assembly code.

Great thanks to GJ who did all hard work to make x64 OTL possible!

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Initial work has been committed on the x64 development branch: http://omnithreadlibrary.googlecode.com/svn/branches/x64

Current status is “Look but don’t use”. Many parts are still broken.