[PD-dev] Is gensym() threadsafe?

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Tim Blechmann wrote:

>>> 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 :-/
>

Well, I'm very well aware of how pd works. I'm just trying to propose
a solution to one particular problem.


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