On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:27:59AM +0200, Michael Mueller wrote: > Are associative arrays thread-safe as well? For example > > a["some-string"] += 1;
No; they act just like global variables. Cheers, - jonathan > Michael > > Adam Leventhal wrote: > > On Apr 5, 2009, at 2:47 AM, Michael Mueller wrote: > >> So does this mean that accessing aggregations is guaranteed to be thread > >> safe? Does this also apply to accessing associative arrays? > > > > > > Yes, aggregations are scalable and thread-safe. One thing we've considered > > adding is some sort of explicit atomic operation for global variables, but > > in the vast majority of cases, aggregations are the right answer. > > > > Adam > > > > -- > > Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl > > > > > > > -- > > === Michael Mueller ================== > Web: http://www.michael-mueller-it.de > ====================================== _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list [email protected]
