Hi Everyone, I want to know regrading the *webkit GTK port*, Is there any plan or patch available for *shared thread model*? Thanks, Prince Goyal
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Darin Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 29, 2011, at 12:45 AM, prince goyal wrote: > > > Does community is having any plan for thread model or is any patch > available for thread model? > > Early in the development of WebKit2 the thread model was working on Mac OS > X and Windows. > > Those of us at Apple stopped maintaining and using the threaded model > because we couldn’t use it on Mac OS X. We need to have WebKit1 and WebKit2 > coexist there and the same copy of WebCore didn’t work in a single process > as both WebKit1’s WebCore and WebKit2’s WebCore. WebKit2 makes use of > WebKit1 on Mac OS X at this time, as does the Safari application, so a mode > where WebKit2 worked but WebKit1 did not was not valuable to us. > > We at Apple might decide to make use of it again in the future if and when > we have resolve those issues for ourselves and once again have contexts > where we are using WebKit2 only. But that’s unlikely to happen any time > soon. > > -- Darin > > --
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