Re: Thread-safety issues in QtHandles

[Michael Goffioul]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Michael Goffioul
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Michael Goffioul
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Here's a complete patch for octave, implementing this new approach.
>> It's obviously less intrusive than the previous one; I made it
>> configurable and disabled it by default. I tested it on Linux and
>> although it's probably not as bullet-proof as using shared_ptr, it
>> seems to provide a level of safety that is satisfying for QtHandles: I
>> tried to launch mirone a couple of times and didn't get any crash. I
>> also timed it on Linux (compiled with "-g -O2"): without the patch,
>> the test suite runs in 94.53s, with the patch, it runs in 111.93s
>> (that is ~17% increase).
>
> Any update on this one?
>
> Did anybody give it a try, for instance on amd64 or Mac OS X?
>
> Michael.

Ping?

Is it deemed to be left in limbo?

Michael.