1Imager::Threads(3)    User Contributed Perl Documentation   Imager::Threads(3)
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NAME

6       Imager::Threads - Imager and threads
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SYNOPSIS

9         use Imager;
10         use threads;
11         Imager->preload;
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13         threads->create(...);
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DESCRIPTION

16       Starting from version 0.94 Imager attempts to work safely with perl's
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19       Previous versions stored some state in global variables, in particular
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22       However there are some limitations:
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24       •   Imager's debug malloc isn't thread safe and will never be.
25           Imager's debug malloc is disabled by default.
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27       •   "libtiff", which Imager uses for TIFF file support is not thread
28           safe, "Imager::File::TIFF" works around this by single-threading
29           its access to "libtiff".
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31       •   "giflib", which Imager uses for GIF support is not thread safe
32           before version 5.  "Imager::File::GIF" works around this by single
33           threading its access to "giflib".
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35       •   "T1Lib", used by one of Imager's font drivers, is not thread safe.
36           "Imager::Font::T1" works around this by single threading access.
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38       •   killing a thread reading or writing TIFF or GIF files, or using T1
39           fonts through "Imager::Font::T1" may deadlock other threads when
40           they attempt to read or write TIFF or GIF files, or work with Type
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43       •   Fill, font, color or I/O layer objects created in one thread are
44           not valid for use in child threads.  If you manage to duplicate
45           such an object in another thread, you get to keep both pieces when
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48       Note that if you have another module using "libtiff", "giflib" or
49       "t1lib" it may interact with Imager's use of those libraries in a
50       threaded environment, since there's no way to co-ordinate access to the
51       global information "libtiff", "giflib" and "t1lib" maintain.
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53       Imager currently doesn't use threads itself, except for testing its
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SEE ALSO

57       Imager, "threads"
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AUTHOR

60       Tony Cook <tony@cpan.org>
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64perl v5.36.0                      2023-01-20                Imager::Threads(3)