On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 20:47 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
Rafael Dominguez wrote:
[...] so my question is should the ref count be thread safe or
not?
Yes, it'll have to. LibO core objects tend to get used from
different threads simultaneously - at least it's truly hard to
verify they're not.
Well, do *all* ref-counted objects have to be thread-safe though?
Making stuff thread-safe comes with an overhead, and in some code
thread-safety isn't really guaranteed, like Calc core. We currently
require the caller to ensure that multiple threads aren't accessing the
core implementation, which basically translates to a bunch of solar
mutex objects in the UNO API implementations...
So, when we are implementing ref-counted objects in such code, I'd like
not to have the overhead of thread safety.
Kohei
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Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc
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