[cairo] [PATCH] Do not hold mutexes when calling destructors.

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 15:15 -0400, Jeff Muizelaar wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:25:18PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 11:29 -0400, Jeff Muizelaar wrote:
> > > 
> > > Perhaps. Is there an advantage to clearing the whole cache
> atomically?
> > > If not, I don't really see what making a copy buys us.
> > 
> > Doing only two mutex operations instead of 32...
> 
> The function is only ever called by cairo_debug_reset_static_data() so
> performance doesn't matter at all.

What if another thread modifies the cache while you have released the
lock?

> -Jeff
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