Re: Locks and threads

[Andy Wingo]

Hey Neil,

On Thu 12 Mar 2009 01:53, Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks to a hint from helgrind, I think the problem might be that the
> symbols obarray is not thread-safe.  But surely using a mutex for
> every symbol that Guile reads would be terrible for performance...

Dunno, in GStreamer we found that uncontended locks are cheap cheap
cheap. AFAIU they don't even cause context switches. And the reader will
be less important in terms of e.g. startup time once the VM lands.

Andy
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