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[skjold@cistron.nl]

I hope someone else can give you a more complete answer about that, because I really don't know whether ODE is reentrant at all. I don't think ODE is thread-safe, but it's possible that there is no harm in concurrent use of the library as long as each simultaneous call operates on a strictly separate world. But in truth, I really don't know.

Greets,
Mark

> Hey, thanks for the info.  I have another technical question: how well would 
> ODE handle multiple threads simulating separate worlds?  If I completely build 
> a new world for each creature, one of the advantages would be moving the 
> simulations to extra processors where available (my machine has two).  So is 
> this a possibility, or would I need to fork off another process to encapsulate 
> ODE enough to allow this?
> 
> Thanks,
> David
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