[Bug 743677] gl: new element caopengllayersink

[bugzilla at gnome.org]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743677

--- Comment #5 from Matthew Waters <ystreet00 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Sebastian Dröge (slomo) from comment #4)
> Not sure if that is possible, we also call some UI related things which are
> probably not possible from a non-main thread.

It is possible, you just need to start a NSThread somewhere and Cocoa becomes
multithreaded much like XInitThreads [0].  It's also possible to draw on
separate threads [1] although on ios UIView's are main thread only but with
CoreAnimation it is all possible to draw on a secondary thread.

[0]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5908728/is-there-any-way-to-enter-cocoa-multithreaded-mode-without-creating-fake-nsthrea
[1]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19954424/multiple-threads-to-draw-in-nsview

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