GC leak?

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

on 02/03/2008 11:46 AM mike.kupfer at xemacs.org said the following:
> Now, are we talking about MT support that's hidden from Emacs Lisp
> applications, or are we talking about exposing multithreading at the
> application level?

If MT is not hidden, then application designers can (a) hang 
themselves with the extra rope, or (b) utilize the MT support in 
application-specific ways.

[anip]

> One thing I've learned from all that is that multithreaded code is hard
> to get right, at least with the commonly available primitives.  

No objections here.

> You
> first need to be careful about making sure that protected data is really
> protected (unless you're using a language like Mesa, where the compiler
> can check for you).  And you need to structure the code carefully to
> avoid deadlocks.  And you need to think harder about race conditions.

Sounds like a GCPRO discussion!

--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic


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