imageworks/OpenColorIO — pull request #309 by jeremyselan (2013-03-04 21:33:49+00:00)
Title: disk access caches allow concurrent lookups / loads.

Previously, if one loaded a file (LUT) that wasnt in cache, this would block
concurrent access of the file caches, even for different files. With this
update, lookups for *different* files are non-blocking. However, lookups on
the same file *are* blocking; a lut should never be loaded twice from disk even
when concurrently used.

This change was added so image viewers which need real time performance can
efficienly use a 'prefetch' thread to see the file caches ahead of time. This is
particularly useful when used when playing clips with per-shot 3-D LUTs.