On Jan 18, 2008 10:21 PM, Ben Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 10:21 +1100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > while i have nothing against adding locks on primitives - if we do it in one > > place (ecore) we will need to start doing it everywhere. locks will add > > overhead. those on limited computing (embedded devices) will feel it most. > > also > > if we look at the work needed to add it everywhere - that's not a small > > undertaking at all. i have decided in the past not to bother as gustavo put > > this clearly - i kind of expect people to have threads do entirely > > independent > > things outside the main gui thread and communicate back cleanly via pipes - > > glib expects people to use threads with glib and has primitives for making > > them > > interact directly with the main loop from a thread. different design > > approaches > > there. > > > > right now i (personally) thing the best way to integrate is to have ecore > > main > > loop and glib main loop run in separate threads, with them communicating via > > pipes used to glue them together. maybe some pipe wrapping/handling stuff in > > ecore might help with this? > > > > That last one will be my fallback position of adding the needed stuff > into glib2 becomes to hard / difficult.
If we could add these primitives and write one on the top of the other, then we could even try to get EFL approved as "glib-friend" under the Gnome foundation, specially on GMAE (Gnome Mobile), this would bring us more developers and even companies. It's nothing more than words/marketing, but it helps a lot in the end... right now they just have Cairo (vectorial, slow) and Clutter (3d-oriented, good with hw-accel but the name can say about software performance...). Evas can fit perfectly in the hole of "fast 2d graphics/canvas". Edje is also unmatched by existing software. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri -------------------------------------- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 17249123 Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (81) 9927 0010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
