[cairo] Static caches and thread-safety

[John Ellson]

Carl Worth wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:34:13 -0500, Keith Packard wrote:
>  
>
>>I think we can manage to figure out enough locking stuff to let these 
>>caches be shared.
>>    
>>
Could you have a default of a non-locking cache in cairo_t
with a method of hooking in an external shared cache in its place?

Then the locking issues can be solved in the external cache 
implementation, and can
be system specific.

John