Re: [pthreads] performance test using fib.scm

[Wolfgang Jaehrling]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:16:04PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
> Still, for large fibonnaci numbers and large branch depths (many
> threads), Guile often crashes in realloc.  That function should be
> thread safe, shouldn't it?

malloc() in glibc is thread-save, but not reentrant.  Since the
behaviour of realloc() is unlikely to differ from malloc() in this
respect, you most certainly have to protect calls to it with a lock.

Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang