[Lazarus] Threads and Libraries (dll and so)

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Schnell wrote:
> I stumbled over this:
> 
> http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/display/XInitThreads.html
> 
> So Xlib is thread aware and they seem to suggest that it dopes make 
> sense to create multiple X sessions (i.e. one per thread) in a single 
> program.

At that point why not bite the bullet and exploit GPU parallelism?

> (And I learned that in fact XInitThreads() can be called in Lazarus 
> projects. -> 
> http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2013-January/078799.html 
> )
> 
> So in fact X does support multiple "!GUIs" (e.g. one per thread) in a  
> multithreadded project.
> 
> Of course it might be that QT (or KDE) impose additional restrictions 
> (though I still suppose that this can be handles somehow).

KDE and Qt are minor issues, far more significant is arbitrary 
restrictions that GTK imposes because they envisage some usage case that 
will break Gnome.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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