Re: [Aspell-user] Multithreaded access to aspell 0.60

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Brett Wilson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a multithreaded program that makes calls to
> aspell_speller_check and aspell_speller_suggest.
> 
> The documentation says that these read-only functions should be
> thread-safe. But I ran a stress test of continuously hammering both of
> these functions from multiple threads, and both of them appear to have
> some problems. I am quite sure that I am using multithreaded gcc
> libraries.

The documentation is out of date and needs to be updated.  Furthermore 
suggest is not readonly since it stores some state information in the 
speller class.

> I use different Speller objects for each thread. Could this be an
> issue? Should I only have one global Speller object?

That is the correct thing to do.  If you use a different speller object for 
each thread than you should be able to use any of the methods.

If you could file a bug report with some test programs to reproduce the 
problem I will look info it.

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