> We're migrating some applications to Firebird embedded and need
> to support
> Win32, Linux-x86 and Solaris sparc.
>
> Our applications are multi-threaded and are expected to at least
> run correctly
> on SMP systems (even if they're not taking full advantage of multiple
> processors). We use a database wrapper to abstract the underlying
> database,
> and this wrapper ensures mutual exclusion to the underlying
> database APIs. We
> also ensure that things like pre-compiled statements are allocated
> per-thread.
>
> Our question is: Which architecture (CS or SS) best fits our needs? If a
> particular architecture is not thread-safe, is it still
> thread-friendly? (In
> other words, does our mutual exclusion wrapper negate the
> argument for which
> architecture to use?)
>
> Regards,
>
> Bud Millwood

the embedded server is only available as SS architecture AFAIK - so your
questions are mute I'd say.
ALan