glassechidna
Not thread safe?
As there are so many static functions and members, I think zxing is not thread safe. Any body know how to make it thread safe?
Well, static functions aren't an issue, but static functions with side effects (e.g. modifying static members) certainly are.
We (Glass Echidna) didn't write zxing-cpp, we're just maintaining a centralised location for people to submit patches. So please don't blame us for the terrible code :wink:
This library is stable enough to use in most cases (I've been using it in production systems for over a year), however from a code quality stand-point I think the project is beyond redemption. If you want to drastically modify it (say make things thread safe), I think you'd be better off performing an entire rewrite and simply use zxing-cpp for reference purposes.
If someone were to do so I'm sure they'd be very popular indeed!
It's not thread safe. I would say it's 'quite' safe though if you are running a thing or two parallel. Making it thread safe wouldn't be that big of a hassle. Static functions by themselves has little to do with thread safety.
