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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: crypt mutex
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 23:39:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hdwjnnxq.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xy7smh1efkk.fsf@chunk.mit.edu> (Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:55:23 -0500")

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mit.edu> writes:

>> This is why I'm leaning towards a minimal policy---to design for the
>> common case of non-threaded programs, but leave the possibility open
>> to write parallel code without too much difficulty.
>
> Of course: If you by 'fix' mean making functions reentrant (that is:
> fixes without too much overhead), then I would agree.

Yes, that is what I meant.  But, if making a function be reentrant
takes a mutex then we should not hesitate to use one.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-20 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-21  0:32 crypt mutex Kevin Ryde
2004-02-21  3:24 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-02-21  3:26   ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-02-23 19:15     ` Marius Vollmer
2004-02-21 21:50   ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-23 19:16     ` Marius Vollmer
2004-02-23 19:12   ` Marius Vollmer
2004-02-23 19:46     ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-02-23 19:55       ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-02-24  1:11         ` Andreas Voegele
2004-02-24  1:22           ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-03-20 22:39         ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2004-03-20 22:51           ` Kevin Ryde
2004-07-23 23:53             ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-23 20:01     ` Mikael Djurfeldt

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