Re: Question on Threading + SVG

On Feb 24, 2009, at 18:56 , Alexander Adam wrote:
> As of Renesis V3, we have implemented multi-threaded rendering which  
> gives
> us a certain perfomance boost on nowadays hardware. However, I  
> remember that
> SVG states that each change of something (i.e. a  
> setAttribute(fill,red) call
> from JS) should *immediately* be reflected by the rendering. Now, with
> multi-threaded rendering there's no guarantee of such thing so what  
> would a
> compatible player supposed to do in that case?

If you want a definitive answer from the WG you should probably ask on  
www-svg. That being said, I believe that that requirement is a best  
effort requirement, as well as a side-effect one (so that anything  
coming right after that call that might depend on the result being  
effected can be deterministic).

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