2010.06.17 15:39 "[Tiff] libtiff 4 API/ABI stability?", by Adam Goode

2010.06.18 00:33 "Re: [Tiff] libtiff 4 API/ABI stability?", by Adam Goode

On 06/17/2010 03:35 PM, Olivier Paquet wrote:

Yes, TSD is probably the only thing that really scales. The downside is that it means we have to link with libpthread on linux. I'm not sure if that kind of change can safely be made once 4.0 is released so now might be a good time, even if we don't actually use libpthread yet.

You don't need TSD to scale. Just have mostly immutable structures that you lock when you write to or pass to a different thread. Then everything can work fine.

I'm pretty sure that if libtiff needs to compile with -pthread then we are doing something wrong.

Adam