Re: [Gnash-dev] Proposed schedule

[strk]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 02:41:25PM -0400, Dossy Shiobara wrote:
> strk wrote:
> >> Anything that helps get the Gnash core VM closer to being
> >> reentrant/thread-safe so it be embedded directly inside applications
> >> that use it as a plugin would be fantastic.  :-)
> > 
> > Are you candidating for this 1-month task ?
> 
> As talented as I might be (ha ha), I think making the VM core
> thread-safe and embeddable is likely to take more than one month.  :-)
> 
> Is the VM mature enough to properly clean itself up and reset so that it
> can play a second SWF in the same process?  If not, perhaps that's a
> task I can try to tackle ... ?

Yes, go for it !
The reset must make sure no references exist to the old VM, which 
means no objects remain alive (as they store refs to the VM in which 
they where created).

--strk;