[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 72155] Replace Qt QThread threading back-end with pthread/Win32 threading back-ends

Mon Nov 21 00:08:32 PST 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72155

--- Comment #13 from Simon Hausmann <hausmann at webkit.org>  2011-11-21 00:08:32 PST ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > in qt/MainThreadQt.cpp we post a message to the main gui thread, which requires
> > that the current thread is a QThread.
> 
> I don't think that's the case - the native thread automatically becomes a QAdoptedThread if needed and posting messages to the main thread from it seems to 
work fine.

You're right. I saw the adopted thread stuff, but my grep missed the place where we create the adopted threads :)

> Setting a breakpoint in WTF::MainThreadInvoker::dispatch() and WTF::scheduleDispatchFunctionsOnMainThread() dispatch() is called on the main thread for each corresponding call to WTF::scheduleDispatchFunctionsOnMainThread()

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