Re: gthread vs pthread

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 21:20 +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a gtk+ application that needs a few threads put in it, to open up some
> bottlenecks.
>
> My question is whether I should go pthreads, or gthreads.
>
> I've played a bit with pthreads, so I have some familiarity with it. I'm wondering:
>
>       - whether pthreads and gthreads can co-exist in the same application
>
>       - is there any benefit of one vs the other ? (no flames, just
>         looking for information here...)
>
>       - are there any known issues with pthreads in a gtk+ application?
>
> thoughts, comments, pointers on the above appreciated.

Just use GThread, it uses pthread internally and is used throughout the
gtk+ code itself, the worst mistake you could make here I suppose
is to just go pthreading away and expect gtk+ to know whats going on.

Cheers,
                -Tristan