Is main-thread intended to be the same for all instances of a plugin? #435
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This has impact if plugin instances share resources. For example, could be global state of a UI framework or another 3rd party library. |
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The documentation talks about main thread as “the” thread and there is certainly the assumption that at a given moment only one thread is the main thread. So even though the documentation doesn’t say this, I believe that within a single process boundary on Linux you can assume main thread functions are always executed in a single threaded fashion (even though a host may I suppose choose to migrate its main thread) if my colleagues agree I propose we expand the thread check documentation to include this fact since the Linux ui is not similarly single threaded architecturally (as I’m sure you know hence the question) |
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The documentation talks about main thread as “the” thread and there is certainly the assumption that at a given moment only one thread is the main thread. So even though the documentation doesn’t say this, I believe that within a single process boundary on Linux you can assume main thread functions are always executed in a single threaded fashion (even though a host may I suppose choose to migrate its main thread)
if my colleagues agree I propose we expand the thread check documentation to include this fact since the Linux ui is not similarly single threaded architecturally (as I’m sure you know hence the question)