Re: [Plplot-devel] Thread safety

2016-02-22 Thread Jim Dishaw
> On Feb 22, 2016, at 5:48 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > @Everybody: now on to my C idea for thread safety. > > My idea for implementing that (closely following what was done for the > C ephcom library case where David Howells implemented an ephcom > context to help

[Plplot-devel] Thread safety

2016-02-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
@Phil: I am particularly interested in your reaction here because you had the idea before that you could implement PLplot in a thread-safe way by using C++ as the core language, i.e., rewriting PLplot in C++. I don't rule out the possibility, but one intermediate step toward that goal might be to