2009/10/23 Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]>:
> Hello all,
>
> I just looked around for thread-safe collections, and found nothing that 
> looks like a shared dictionary.  The squeak-dev archives contain the 
> obligatory newbie posts (wanting all collections to be thread safe) and the 
> expected replies, some of which are overly dismissive of the idea.  Something 
> that protects things like #at:ifAbsentPut: and friends is _really_ useful.  
> Am I missing an existing implementation?
>

Imo, there's only one shared collection which is useful - shared queue. :)
If you need more kinds of thread-safe collections, it probably
indicating that the concurrent code (or model) which you designed is
in pretty bad shape.

Just compare two following snippets:

1 to: 100 do: [:i |  collection threadSafeAt: i put: something].

and:

semaphore critical: [ 1 to: 100 do: [:i |  collection at: i put: something] ].

What you think, which one is better?


> Bill
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

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