Shiro Kawai scripsit: > A bit of off-topic, but I'd like to point out that such "smart" > string implementation tends to have difficulty with preemptive > threads. Presumably such a string object has some indication of > the kind of representation, and a pointer to the actual string body. > What if one thread replaces the kind and a pointer (for "upgrading" > the string kind by string-set!) and another thread accesses it > inbetween?
"I want to say just one word to you, just one word ... Locks." -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ccil.org/~cowan Big as a house, much bigger than a house, it looked to [Sam], a grey-clad moving hill. Fear and wonder, maybe, enlarged him in the hobbit's eyes, but the Mumak of Harad was indeed a beast of vast bulk, and the like of him does not walk now in Middle-earth; his kin that live still in latter days are but memories of his girth and his majesty. --"Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit" _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
