William D Clinger wrote:
Per Bothner wrote:
I cannot sea how an application can be other
than seriously buggy if one thread tries to read a string
while another thread is updating it without first acquiring
a lock.
There are lots of seriously correct reasons for
doing that. Indeed, several partially concurrent
garbage collectors do that, and one of my PhD
students is writing a new partially concurrent
garbage collector for Larceny that will do that.
I'm talking about two application threads.
A garbage collector is not an "application".
It knows about the treading model, memory system, etc.
If it is written in Scheme, it would be a special
"system Scheme" variant, not R6RS.
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--Per Bothner
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