Re: [Freetype] Thread safe

[Roberto Peon]

We use freetype in a multithread setting-

We've just instantiated another instance of the library per thread, and havn't 
yet run across any problems.

A better question to ask is:

Is the freetype library reentrant?

If not, then you have to serialize access with a mutex, otherwise you can 
create an instance per thread and go merrily along your way.

-Roberto JP
robertopeon at sportvision.com

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "David Turner" <address@hidden>
Reply-To: address@hidden
Date:  Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:42:19 +0200

>todde wrote:
>> Is FreeType 2 thread safe?
>> 
>No, but it doesn't use global variables. Also, serializing access
>with a mutex should be trivial.
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>In other news, using the library with several threads is probably
>a very bad idea anyway, especially if you use caching...
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>- David Turner
>- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)
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