There are many libraries and APIs (e.g. Qt) that seem to be intentionally designed to be non-thread safe. What is the motivation for such a design?
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There are many libraries and APIs (e.g. Qt) that seem to be intentionally designed to be non-thread safe. What is the motivation for such a design?
It’s easier. Its really difficult to make a non trivial library thread safe without loosing
Since many developers value these things pretty high they often decide to not care about multi threading.
For GUI libraries sanity seems to be a major concern, since you get into really complex situations when you don’t stick to a single thread for your GUI code.