All code interacting with Objective-C objects should now use Automated
Reference Counting rather than manual memory management or Garbage
Collection. Because ARC prohibits C-structs from containing
references to Objective-C objects, all such fields are now typed
'gpointer'. Setting and gettings Objective-C fields on such a
struct now uses explicit __bridge_* calls to tell ARC about
object lifetimes.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777847
Execute GL calls without marshalling them to the context thread. In the cocoa
and eagl backends calling gst_gl_context_activate is cheap and therefore calling
it on the current thread and serializing GL calls with a per-context lock is
more efficient (faster and has less overhead) than marshalling everything to the
context thread.
This optimization cuts a large overhead in g_poll (continuously waking up the
context thread) and in g_mutex_*/g_cond_* (waiting for results from the context
thread).
