[plt-scheme] vectors and threads

From: Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema (hdnews at gawab.com)
Date: Sat Dec 17 05:16:28 EST 2005

Thank you for your answers!

Matthew Flatt schreef:

>At Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:07:53 -0800 (PST), Danny Yoo wrote:
>  
>
>>According to Section 7.1 in the MzScheme language manual, all the
>>primitives should be kill-safe and suspend-safe:
>>
>>http://download.plt-scheme.org/doc/299.400/html/mzscheme/mzscheme-Z-H-
>>7.html#node_chap_7
>>    
>>
>
>I'm very happy that you were able to extract information from the
>MzScheme manual. :) Still, I've adjusted the wording from "primitives"
>to "procedures" so that you don't have to check which functions are
>"primitive". I had to add an "Unless otherwise noted" clause, because
>`equal?'-based hash tables are not kill-safe.
>
>Meanwhile, I added text to explain that all constant-time procedures
>provided by MzScheme are thread-safe, because they are atomic.
>
>So, to confirm the answer to the original question: yes, vector
>operations are thread-safe.
>
>Matthew
>
>  
>



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