The BeOS version of HINT differs slightly from the architecture used
in the other supported SMP systems, since there is no automatic
compiler-supported multiprocessor scheduling. Instead, the driver
spawns a set of computation threads and instructs them through
the lowest-level kernel messaging service. Because even this message
service carries a significant overhead, the number of messages have
been minimized by moving the "resolution-amplification" iteration
out from Run() to the compute thread.

The binaries, hint-*-shmem, are compiled under BeOS 1.1d7 with 
Metrowerks CodeWarrior using full optimization (-O7).

Osma Ahvenlampi, <oa@iki.fi>