Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Benjamin Sugars]

On Thu, 3 May 2001, Chris Stith wrote:

> Really, it does help to let the user know, but wouldn't it be
> better to be able to declare an XS module to be thread safe in the
> Perl program calling it or perhaps in the XS itself? This would
> require YAFC (yet another function call), but it would be a way to
> control whether or not perl will single-thread the calls.
> 
>     use Foo;
>     threadsafe Foo;
> 
> It's ugly, but it would allow an easy way to let perl know whether
> it can safely treat calls to an XS based module as reentrant.

Would not the module itself have a better idea about thread safety than
the calling environment?

But I don't see how this helps.  Simply serializing calls into a
non-thread-safe library doesn't make it thread-safe.  Or perhaps I'm
misunderstanding your suggestion?

Cheers,
-Ben

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