On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 00:20 -0400, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote: > Hi, > > This patch reverts EventQueue and the GTK peers from its current single- > threaded design to a simpler two-threaded design. The GTK main loop > will now run in its own thread, separate from the AWT event dispatch > thread. I'm reverting this for two reasons: > > One, the contention between the AWT event queue lock and the GDK lock was > impossible to resolve satisfactorily. The single threaded design was only > workable if we could release the GDK lock in GTK callbacks that posted to the > event queue (thus acquiring the AWT event queue lock). It turns out that it > is unsafe to release the GDK lock in that situation. Therefore our current > callbacks are wrong, and the assumption that the single threaded design > relied on is invalid. > > Two, the single-threaded design introduced new methods to > ClasspathToolkit and calls to those methods in EventQueue. With the > introduction of the Qt peers, there's a push to remove references to > ClasspathToolkit from within the java.awt namespace. > > Comments?
I got positive comments from people on IRC, so I committed this. Tom _______________________________________________ Classpath-patches mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath-patches
