Hello, On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:46 AM, David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:43:05 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:39:47 +0100 dumblob <dumb...@gmail.com> said: >> >> > Thank you. If I got it correctly, it will be possible to use BÖBs C >> > API from parallel threads without being afraid something will break >> > up. That's neat and I'll look forward to testing first alpha >> > versions in a few years :). >> >> no - unlikely unless we got to lots of effort to make the c api >> threadsafe. most of efl is not threadsafe. only eina and eet are, >> with ecore (some of it) optionally. since bob will interface directly >> to evas - thus evas's api would need to be threadsafe for bob to be >> threadafe and... we're not likely doing this. marshall all your bob >> calls back to the mainloop and do them there. we have plenty of infra >> for just that without any locks. > > Just as a point of interest, my experiments with using LuaJIT in EFL > found that the Lua stuff itself is threadsafe so long as we use a > thread safe memory allocator, which LuaJIT itself provides. The memory > allocator we currently use in Edje Lua is not thread safe. I've been > meaning to ask, do we have a threadsafe memory allocator in Eina?
Depend what you are looking for. If an eina_mempool does fit your need, then they are threadsafe. If you are need a more general purpose allocator, malloc should be fine. > You are correct though, the rest of EFL is not as thread safe. My > LuaJIT experiments involved enough message passing to deal with the > "marshall all your bob calls back to the mainloop" you mentioned. Care to share the code of your experiment, I am quite interested in it. -- Cedric BAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
