[PD-dev] Is gensym() threadsafe?

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Tim Blechmann wrote:

> 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 ...
>

But its the same hash that is created anyway right? So all I got to
do is to cut and paste pd-s gensym implementation into my code and call
the function and hash-table for something else, and then I'm done.


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