Is Set growth thread-safe?
Bert Freudenberg
bert at impara.de
Wed Sep 21 14:15:34 UTC 2005
Am 21.09.2005 um 07:15 schrieb Ross Boylan:
> I thought smalltalk was supposed to be thread-safe with respect to its
> own threads. Am I mistaken in that belief, or in my analysis that the
> operation is not thread safe?
It's not safe. You need to protect concurrent access to all objects
that are not specifically designed for thread-safety (like
SharedQueues):
"init"
sema := Semaphore forMutualExclusion.
set := Set new.
"in threaded code"
sema critical: [set add: something].
- Bert -
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