Re: [Lcms-user] multi threaded fork

[Vincent T. <vin...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 12:06 PM Marti <mar...@li...> wrote:
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> Thanks Vicent,
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> I  am already in contact with Artifex, they told me about their fork.
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> Please note lcms already is multi-threading capable, and some critical
> functions like cmsDoTransform are re-entrant.   By default, it uses pthreads
> on everything but windows, that uses critical sections instead.
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> Artifex have added a way to pass parameters to each function to identify the
> thread,  but unfortunately this breaks all compatibility with prior APIs, so
> I had to reject the changes on upstream because compatibility sake.  The
> "normal" lcms is based on contexts. It allows you to change via plug-in's
> the locking strategy and the memory allocation.

can't you add functions which use their changes ? So just API additions ?

Vincent Torri