Mo DeJong wrote:
> What is a "thin lock"? Did you mean spin lock? I don't see what is
> wrong with a good old mutex, but putting one in means we would
> need to require a thread safe version of Tcl. I don't really
> like the "use the JVM to do locking" hacks in there now. Using
> the JVM to do locking in a JVM finalizer seems like a really
> bad idea.
Thin locks are usually performed in user space, i.e. without help from
the OS kernel. Spin locks are an example. A mutex might work, but
isn't really portable either... depends on the OS.
--
Jeff Sturm
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