Re: Changesets: Re: Parallel access to data created with Octave

[Michael D. Godfrey]

On 5/25/10 10:23 AM, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> In the simplest setup, counter increments and decrements should be
> decorated by #pragma omp atomic.
> I think we could have a set of macros, similar to Py_INCREF et al, for
> doing this.
>    
This seems to be a useful first step (not a workaround!)
> I do, however, think, that in order to make Octave multithreaded, we
> would eventually need to implement some kind of global interpreter
> lock, similar to what Python has. There are also open questions what
> to do with things like the call stack or symbol table.
>
> --
More thought needed for these, but it is time to start. :-)

A thread that works on a design document for the implementation might be 
useful...

Michael