[PD-dev] Is gensym() threadsafe?

[Tim Blechmann]

> > well, it's not as easy as that ... pd is not designed to be a
> > multithreaded application ...
> > so someone could just say ... "don't use threads"
> >
> 
> I don't understand why its not as easy as that... Theres nothing wrong
> using threads and locks as long as all of them is running realtime.
> 
> You already know the following, but just to clarify: You have a
> problem if a realtime thread is waiting on a non-realtime thread,
> then, any non-realtime thread in the system can interrupt the
> realtime thread. My proposial for sys_lock eliminates that particular
> problem.

just take it as design fault of pd :-/

t

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