> >> I probably should have phrased my question better with the array, what I >> was >> wondering is if it was safe for say two threads to right to the array at >> the same >> time as long as I'm sure they're not writing to the same index of the >> array? > > You can do anything you want without thread safety, but you run the risk > of deadlocks or corrupted memory. That is why the question was whether it was safe.
> > The problem isn't writing to two different elements of an array, >the hard part is *ensuring* that you are writing to two different elements >of an array. Multithreading code is tough to write correctly, you may >want to read a book on it. And sometimes it is extremely easy to ensure you are never writing to the same elements.
