Re: C++ Refactoring plans?

Around 13 o'clock on Nov 13, Psamathos wrote:

> Are there any plans to refactor the current code to C++, or make the 
> Xserver multithreaded?

I designed and lead the implementation of multi-threaded X server many
years ago.  It's not useful because the graphics accelerator is not 
multi-threaded; the X server today splits its time between waiting for 
clients to send requests and waiting for the graphics accelerator to 
finish processing them.

Locking 2D rendering also turned out to be really hard.

-keith