[cairo] Static caches and thread-safety

[Bill Spitzak]

On Friday 12 November 2004 08:20 am, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Traditionally on Linux, using threads required linking to
>    -lpthread, and linking to -lpthread can slow apps down
>    5-10%. (More if you use getc() a lot.)

IMHO this was a serious blunder by the pthreads standard.

FILE objects should have *not* been made thread-safe. Much like cairo_t 
objects (and objects in many other libraries), using two *different* FILE 
objects should have been thread-safe, but not using the same one.

Vast numbers of programs that assumme getc() is fast were hurt badly by this 
decision. Probably impossible for them to fix it, though. Sigh.