[PD-dev] Is gensym() threadsafe?

[Tim Blechmann]

> > 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.

not exactly ... what you could do is to take my code from devel and
replace the hashtable lock by the sys_lock

t

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