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From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mit.edu>
Cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: crypt mutex
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:01:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xy7oerpefay.fsf@chunk.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87znb98v9x.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:12:42 +0100")

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> writes:

> can lists be meaningfully made thread safe?

Your general question is very relevant.  Regarding this example, my
answer would be that we should limit ourselves to making sure that we
don't get segfault or memory corruption if multiple threads randomly
mutates pairs.  If a threaded program needs thread safe (in this case:
mutually exclusive) access to a list data structure, it uses a mutex.

M



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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-23 20:01 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
2004-03-20 22:51           ` Kevin Ryde
2004-07-23 23:53             ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-23 20:01     ` Mikael Djurfeldt [this message]

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