[PD-dev] Is gensym() threadsafe?

[Tim Blechmann]

hi kjetil,

> Hm, no, actually, I can't do that. Snd isn't running with 
> realtime priority, so if pd needs to wait for snd, pd will in
> practice lose its realtime priority when it has to wait for Snd.
> Miller P.: Please apply Tim's threadsafe gensym to your version. :-)

i know ... priority inversion and all the stuff ... the problem of the
threadsafe gensym implementation ... it's using a thread lock, too ...
although only for the inserting into the hash table ...
i've got a lockfree thread safe implementation of a hash table on my
hard drive, but i wrote it in c++ and it's only tested on x86/linux ...

t

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