Patrick Steele wrote: > > See the Hashtable.Synchronized() method. > > "A Hashtable can safely support one writer and multiple readers > concurrently. To support multiple writers, all operations must be > done through this wrapper only."
Helpfully, this is contradicted by the main documentation for the class itself: " To support one or more writers, all operations on the Hashtable must be done through the wrapper returned by the Synchronized method." This suggests that synchronization is always required for multithreaded operation, except for the special case where you initialize your hashtable during initialization, and thereafter use it from multiple threads that only ever read from it. I'm not sure which of those two is actually true... -- Ian Griffiths - DevelopMentor http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/ =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŪ http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
