On Monday, 26 March 2018 at 16:14:31 UTC, Jonathan wrote:
Can I send data over an std.socket on multiple threads without
manual mutexing?
If not, can I send data on a separate thread than receive?
The docs for std.socket say nothing of it (which I guess means
I should assume it is not thread safe but...).
Thanks!
Define thread safe.
It's safe in the way that the buffers each call to send will have
will be what you expect.
Ex.
thread1 sends [1,2,3] and thread2 sends [4,5,6]
then you're guaranteed that what you receive would be [1,2,3] and
[4,5,6].
What it isn't safe from would be race conditions.
So you don't know if you get it like [1,2,3,4,5,6] or
[4,5,6,1,2,3].
So if the order of the buffer matters then you should use a
mutex, but if the order doesn't matter then you don't need to.
