Tomasz Jankowski wrote: > I generaly know how to write multithreads applications (so far code, which I > wrote works fine). However I'm not sure if I should always lock and unlock > mutex when I'm accesing some global data from thread. I know, that i'm > obligated to sorround with mutex's lock and unlock each part of code, which > acces some global variables, but I wonder if I can omit mutex locking when I > do such fast thing like reading drom integer variable. Can I do it?
AFAIK, integer reading is atomic. So you probably can since mutex locking probably indicates you just protect against write-in-the-middle case, not performing any synchronization. Paul _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
