[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 50993] better support for multicore platforms

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50993

--- Comment #2 from Paul Millar <paul.millar at desy.de> 2012-06-12 02:06:34 PDT ---
Hi Thomas,

Again, thanks for the quick reply.

My apologies if it's the same, but I don't believe so.

In bug 50992, I'm asking that the API is thread-safe; that is, that multiple
threads may call the poppler API without any potential corruption of any global
state and, ideally, without contention between the different calling threads. 
This was the specific deficiency mentioned by the Okular developer when closing
the ticket linked to in that bug.

In this bug, I'm asking that a single API call uses as many cores as possible;
that is, with a single rendering request, poppler makes best use of the
available CPU cores.

I believe that currently poppler is single threaded, so will use only a single
core.

Does that help explain the difference?

Cheers,

Paul

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