Ok, then I have no problem whatsoever with it. Never heard of spinlocks 
except in connection with the Linux kernel and have absolutely no idea 
of how they differ from Mutexes (They seem to perform the same thing).

/Mauritz
GlobeCom AB

Matthias Elter wrote:

> Henrik Johnson wrote:
>
>> My application TOra (Not in any of the KDE packages, but it is a KDE 
>> application and already supports KDE3) uses threads extensively. So 
>> making KDE not working with threads would basically force me to go 
>> back to Qt only. As long as it is optional (And distributions not 
>> using it) I have no problems with this. 
>
>
> You misunderstood Lubos. Even with his malloc implementation enabled 
> KDE will of course continue to support threads. Because of the use of 
> spinlocks for mutual exclusion it might perform a bit worse with many 
> threads running than the default implementation though.
>
> Greetings,
> Matthias
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