[haiku-appserver] Re: we need to think, I think...

Hi Stephan,

Stephan Assmus wrote:
>>      However, there is still a problem, IMO.
>>      We create another "lock", clippingDataLock, a MultiLocker.
>>Now, the question: should the clipping calculations be done outside 
>>RL's
>>thread(remember my original email) too, or not?
> 
> I think that it is fine that the calculation (write access) is done in 
> the same thread always, which would be the RootLayer thread. It should 
> be an atomic operation, and we don't need to complicate things. 

        But, remember what I wrote in the first email. Won't this have a side 
effect on GUI responsiveness? Or we will leave it like it is and see if 
it works OK?


BTW, some IRC? :-)



bye,
Adi.

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