On Jul 31, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Eric Seidel wrote: > I think it's wrong for JSC to assume pthreads. Gtk seems to have its > own threading system. Windows does too. It's unclear to me (aside > from the comment below) why it needs them long term.
Any custom solution that we may come up with will be quite heavyweight - it is not correct to assume that WTF::Mutex can just call through to a mutex (or critical section) provided by the platform, for example, as the semantics differ a lot. We'd basically need to take pthreads implementations for all platforms and import those into WTF, possibly changing the coding style. Yes, I'm exaggerating, but not too much :) Now, what's the benefit of importing pthreads into WTF compared to using it as an external library? - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
