[Bug 706553] context creation is not thread safe

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706553
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-gl | git

--- Comment #11 from Matthew Waters <ystreet00 at gmail.com> 2013-09-02 12:47:05 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > (In reply to comment #8)
> > > (In reply to comment #7)
> > > No I meant if the callers of send_message() currently require invocation to be
> > > synchronous or if we can easily make them async.
> > 
> > We can probably make most of them async pretty easily.
> 
> I'm all for making things async, but then you need to make sure that the
> callback is *always* called at some point so the data passed to it can be
> freed. Maybe modelling the API around GAsyncResult (see the GIO APIs) would
> make sense too then, might also be too much for this though :)

I thought about trying that earlier but got caught up in other things that were
more pressing :).  OpenGL is inherently async anyway in most cases so yes, it
might be too much which was one of the reasons I didn't attempt this earlier.

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