Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 25th Feb 2006 12:59 UTC, submitted by nzjrs
Qt "Yesterday, I got Qt running on top of the Glib main loop. By using the QAbstractEventDispatcher API, I was able to completely replace the entire event dispatching mechanism of a Qt 4 application with less than 600 lines of code. What does this mean?"
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RE[2]: X is not thread safe
by tihirvon on Sat 25th Feb 2006 17:45 UTC in reply to "RE: X is not thread safe"
tihirvon
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2006-01-02

> Oh my. In this day in age of multi-core someone should
> get on that quick! ...or will moving all the processing
> to the videocard solvethis as a side-effect?

X is lot more than graphics. I don't think X needs to be thread-safe, only one thread should do event processing and painting anyway. This doesn't mean that you couldn't use threads in X programs, you can have separate thread for processing data or whatever but only one thread can do the X stuff.

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