[Openal-devel] Thread-local contexts

[Chris Robinson]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 8:26:02 am Jason Daly wrote:
> Chris Robinson wrote:
> > This allows alcMakeContextCurrent to behave the same for existing code,
> > while new code can affect just the thread's current context, within the
> > same app.
> 
> Makes a lot of sense to me.  Will this bring up any new concurrency issues?

It shouldn't. OpenAL is still thread safe, so two threads calling AL functions 
shouldn't trip over each other regardless if they're using the same context or 
not.

My only question is if two threads can have the same context set locally. 
OpenGL doesn't allow the same context to be set current on multiple threads at 
once, but OpenAL is already designed to work with one context between threads, 
so I'm not sure if the restriction is necessary.