Re: Multiple threads and drawing

[klaus triendl <klaus triendl eu>]

Germán Diago schrieb:
> 2008/6/18 klaus triendl <klaus triendl eu>:
> > One question remains though: is sharing a Glib::RefPtr<> between multiple
> > threads threadsafe, given that only one thread at a time accesses the actual
> > object? Or asked differently: is Glib::ObjectBase::reference() and
> > Glib::ObjectBase::unreference() threadsafe?
> I was also thinking about the thread safety of Glib::RefPtr<>. I don't
> know if it is or not, and I didnt find anything in the documentation.
> When you say I should reply everyone, should I reply to both everyone
> and gtkmm-list one by one? Thanks for your time.


I investigated a bit:
reference/unreference call g_object_ref/g_object_unref and according to 
the GObject reference manual 
(http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/stable/gobject-memory.html) they 
are threadsafe as of Glib 2.8.


Klaus