[Gardeners] Sharing lexical variables among threads, Re: Shared State Concurrency specification.

Marco Monteiro masm at acm.org
Mon Jul 17 16:40:12 CDT 2006



Matthew Astley wrote:
> Here's a spec idea: could one declare a thread to be an outcast,
> banned from touching any specials or shared lexicals that don't meet
> some standard locking mechanism?  This probably means no access to
> vast tracts of CL that read or modify global stuff, but it would
> partition the problem of what might need to be locked.

I don't think so. This would be too intrusive.

Cheers,

Marco


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