Re: gnome-metadata

[Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>]

>> Thread-safety for the gnome-libs in general would be nice to have.

Elliot> I'd better ask the duh question: "How will this thread safety
Elliot> make GNOME be better?"

It will let people write threaded programs.

Maybe you don't care about this.  Hell, maybe I don't -- I don't write
them by default.  But it seems to me that VFS has opened the door to
doing this.

Elliot> Buzzwords sound nice, but it has a performance & memory
Elliot> penalty that we can't just ignore.

You know this how?  I doubt the changes I made to gnome-metadata are
even measurable for a non-threaded program.

T