On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Rob Savoye <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Gilbert wrote: > >> just curious whether thread-safeness is on the roadmap for the next >> gnash release? this would be a very significant milestone and >> great feature to have since the current browser plugin is so slow >> (due to many spawned processes). thanks. > > Yes, it's on the roadmap, but a big project with nobody working on it > as their primary focus. We need a thread safe core lib so I can use the > Gnash VM in Cygnal for server side ActionScript.
Newer browsers (IE8 and Chrome) are forcing all "plugins" to be in separate processes anyway; a thread-safe Gnash wouldn't speed it up at all in that environment. Firefox 4 may have this feature, but it will not see such a beast in the 3.x line at this point. Sun is trying to fix this problem by making the JVM do a lot more dlopen calls and making it much more modular (for download and for startup times). -- http://inconnu.islug.org/~ink finger [email protected] for PGP block _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
