Hello, i m using threads in a glib-only project, a service daemon, i have
implemented them using GThreads, but i see now that GThreads is only a wrapper
around pthreads (with the corresponding overhead from doing so) and does not
provide any additional benefit (if i dont mistake the only real benefit is the
cross platform feature).
My application uses threads heavily, so i m not sure if i should go with
pthreads or Gthread, just to clarify, i m hesitating because of the overhead of
wrapping pthreads and also a more generic code, i m also 100% sure that the
daemon will always run on linux or unix with a pthread implementation,
regarding this, i have a few questions, i m just recently using Glib so i have
no experience in other projects with glib, so i would like to know:
1. if i dont issue the g_thread_init, at the beginning of my application, will
there be any problem in glib itself? some functions or functionality willl
cease to work or work incorrectly ?
2. Can i just use Glib with pthread instead of GThread ? i know that the main
loop and GAsyncQueue will work out of the box.
3. The documentation says that by issuing g_thread_init Glib will become thread
safe, i dont understand this, if i dont issue the command Glib will not work in
a multithreated environment ?
4. If in the future i use glib in another project and decided to use pthread in
my code but i know GTK uses GThread inside, will this be a problem? will it be
overhead because i would be using pthreads and GThread together ?
5. What would you use? why?
thanks!
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