Re: [Chicken-users] Thread safe hash tables?

[Kon Lovett]

On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:37 AM, Thomas Chust wrote:

> Hello,
>
> just a small question: Are CHICKEN's hash tables threadsafe by  
> design or do I have to surround all hash table accesses in  
> multithreaded applications by a mutex-lock! / mutex-unlock! pair?

FWIW my reading of the source is 1) No & 2) Yes. You could surround  
access w/ disable/enable interrupts, since that would inhibit a  
context switch by the schedular during the access. But I think  
creating a "thread-safe" wrapper around your shared data-structure,  
as you suggest, is the best.

> cu,
> Thomas
>
>
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