On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:17:14 +0900 Mike McCormack <mj.mccorm...@samsung.com>
said:

it's 9pm on a friday night... and i don't think i'm going to get stuck into
this right now. for now.. no one revert or do anything... i'll get to this
tomorrow after some good sleep. :)

> Hi All,
> 
> This patch adds some level of thread safety to ecore.
> It does not add thread awareness (i.e. adding a timer from a thread will not
> wake a sleeping main loop).
> 
> In my experience, developers either are ignorant of the problems of threads, 
> or expect libraries to magically work with threads.
> 
> I understand that some people think that thread safety is not necessary, but
> IMO, the performance cost and complexity is easily outweighed by the benefit
> of meeting developer expectation.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Mike


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------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------
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