On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 11:41 +0800, Nor Jaidi Tuah wrote: > Thanks for the replies. > > It seems that WeakRef doesn't help with the granularity: > multiple readers will lock out each other (I hope I'm > wrong here). Besides, from > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703996 > it appears that WeakRef is totally broken. > > As for HazardPointers, according to the documentation: > HazardPointers are not thread-safe (unless documentation > states otherwise) > > I wish vala has "lockread" in addition to lock. >
(I've wrote both the HazardPointers and documentations to them) HazardPointers as structure are not thread safe - i.e. you cannot access single HazardPointer from multiple threads. However they do allow multi-thread access (that's their purpose). Best regards
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