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Re: Strange threading behaviour in guile-16.1 (--with-threads) and (gtk-
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Kevin Ryde |
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Re: Strange threading behaviour in guile-16.1 (--with-threads) and (gtk-main): gtk-main blocks all other threads |
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Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:00:55 +1100 |
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Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
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> (1) garbage collection requires cooperation between threads; if the main
> thread running gtk-main doesn't check in now and then the app will lock
> up in gc
The old guile-gtk has a set of GThreadFunctions that still work in
1.6, if you wanted to compare (gtk-main can run in a thread there).
In recent changes I divvied up the gtk-threads.c file into sections
for 1.6, 1.8 and no threads, to help show which bits are used where.