Re: Creating jpegs in a separate Thread

[stefan]

Hi,

>> Well, currently the current GSDisplayServer is stored on a per-thread
>> basis, which is probably a bug.
>
> This is no bug. GSDisplayServer, like the rest of the backend (and most
> of -gui) is explicitly not thread safe, so if you want to use it from
> two threads, you need two separate instances.
>
> The bug is that image loading touches these parts at all. Yet another
> issue caused by using wraster to load images, and one that would be
> fixed by fixing this to use lib{jpeg,png,...} directly. I thought we had
> a task for this, but I can't see it now. Anyway, it's fairly
> straightforward work, and it'd fix many issues; patches are very
> welcome. :)

i'll see what i can do. I will definitly need good image handling (consider
good as: load images from memory and from the disk in various threads) for
webcore. do you think it's complicated to throw away wraster and use
the various other libs instead?

ciao
Stefan