Re: [gtk-list] Making gtk thread-safe

[Erik Troan <ewt redhat com>]

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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