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2010.06.18 00:33 "Re: libtiff 4 API/ABI stability?", by Adam Goode
On 06/17/2010 03:35 PM, Olivier Paquet wrote: > > Yes, TSD is probably the only thing that really scales. The downside > is that it means we have to link with libpthread on linux. I'm not > sure if that kind of change can safely be made once 4.0 is released so > now might be a good time, even if we don't actually use libpthread > yet. You don't need TSD to scale. Just have mostly immutable structures that you lock when you write to or pass to a different thread. Then everything can work fine. I'm pretty sure that if libtiff needs to compile with -pthread then we are doing something wrong. Adam