Re: [java-gnome-hackers] Cairo threading

[Behdad E. <be...@be...>]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 18:22 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> 
> [1]: following the hypothesis that such a things are actually allowed
> in Cairo. It certainly isn't with gdk-pixbuf but that's a different
> library and GDK has clear rules about this stuff. See also
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534573

Cairo's MT-safe as long you don't use/modify the same cairo_t,
cairo_surface_t, cairo_pattern_t, or cairo_font_options_t concurrently
from multiple threads . That is, the font objects that are reasonably
shared are MT-safe, the rest are not.


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