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[gtk-list] Re: Making gtk thread-safe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Tue Jul 29 17:43:42 1997
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:43:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Elliot Lee wrote:
> I've been thinking about making gtk thread safe. It seems like it is
> becoming an often-requested feature. Here are some random thoughts of mine
> on the issue:
>
> The easiest way to do this is the global mutex. This doesn't help
> performance very much, though.
I wonder where gtk spends most of its time? It seems pretty efficient, so
I'd *guess* that the real time sinks are in Xlib and the Xserver. If that's
the case, a single mutex is all you need.
Also, most multithreaded windowing apps dedicate a single thread to the
user interface, which would also suggest this approach. I suspect that
any type of fine-grained locking on gtk would be a huge loss?
Erik
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