On Monday 12 May 2014 09:37:25 Michael Schnell wrote: > On 05/11/2014 08:06 AM, Martin Schreiber wrote: > > Hi, > > Because of the big overhead by locked refcount operations and memory > > barriers long strings and dynamic arrays are not thread safe, even > > reading needs serializing if the data will be accessed from several > > threads. > > In exactly what environment is this true ? > The overhead? Every operation which inc/dec's ref count, for example " stringvar:= stringexpression; procedurecal(stringparameter); ... " AFAIK memory barriers are extremely "evil".
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