On 2016-02-24 10:33-0000 Phil Rosenberg wrote: > Hi Alan > I've cut and pasted some bits together of your last couple of emails > > > >> However, isn't being forced to use separate threads in order to >> (automatically) have separate PLplot contexts for each thread a >> relatively minor inconvenience compared to the very much larger user >> inconvenience required by adding a context address to most API calls? >> > Not necessarily. This may force someone to restructure their code as > they would have to have separate contexts in separate functions and > may actually generate race conditions that people will need to deal > with using mutexes.
Without introducing backwards incompatibilities in our entire API we could certainly add a getter, plgcontext and setter, plscontext, for PLplotContextAddress to our API similarly to the way that plgstrm and plsstrm work now. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
