[cairo] Static caches and thread-safety

[Keith Packard]

Around 22 o'clock on Nov 11, Carl Worth wrote:

> I'm half tempted to move the caches down into cairo_t and encourage
> users to clone from a single call to cairo_create if they want to get
> all the sharing benefits...

I think we can manage to figure out enough locking stuff to let these 
caches be shared.  The cost of rasterizing glyphs and sending them to the 
server is pretty high, and we certainly don't want to do that any more 
frequently than absolutely necessary.

However, all of that font stuff is X specific, and so requiring pthreads 
(or other reasonable locking) for it to work efficiently doesn't seem a 
strong limitation.

-keith


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