[PD-dev] Is gensym() threadsafe?

[Tim Blechmann]

> Btw, I'd like to know, how do I make reference-counting threadsafe? is
> there an efficient way? 

you can count atomically ... 

> Btw^2, I'd like to know, how does malloc() work with pthreads? how
> does it achieve threadsafety? what's the impact on realtime?

malloc is thread safe, but that realtime safe ...

t

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