please test: Xlib/XCB fixes
Brian Paul
brianp at vmware.com
Mon Apr 19 06:40:42 PDT 2010
Jamey Sharp wrote:
> Josh and I sorted out a bunch of Xlib bugs this week, especially in
> support for multi-threaded applications. I'm embarrassed that I hadn't
> realized the thread support was so bad--but there are so few threaded
> Xlib apps, and even fewer that are open source.
This sounds great. Writing threaded GL apps has been a challenge
because of threading bugs in Xlib.
If you have a Mesa tree built, try progs/xdemos/glthreads. If you use
a software renderer (swrast or softpipe) you'll be drawing everything
through Xlib.
-Brian
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