Re: [xml] win32 thread safety patch

["Robert Collins" <robert collins itdomain com au>]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Serguei Narojnyi" <serguein opencola com>
To: <xml gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 9:48 AM
Subject: RE: [xml] win32 thread safety patch


> > Has anyone tried linking against pthreads directly?
> >  http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/
> > is a maintained port of pthreads to win32, IMO it would keep the xml
> > codebase cleaner to use this, than a direct win32 implementation.
>
> while this would work, it wouldn't be as efficient, for example
compare
> amount of code that implements reentrant mutexes on win32 with
construct
> that is written for pthreads (and which would have to be fully
executed if
> pthread emulation would be chosen). threading part of libxml is
sufficiently
> small and separated to be implemented natively without any emulation,
imo
> anyway.

If you examine
http://world.std.com/~jmhart/opensource.htm
(A link from the pthread-win32 page) an independent review was conducted
and found the performance to be approximately equal to that of pure
WIN32 threading calls.

Rob.