Re: Atmoic operations in Multi-threaded Perl?

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Gray
On 7/6/05, Siegfried Heintze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I assume that an auto-increment operation on an integer value is atomic > (that is, cannot be interrupted by another thread)? This is a common > assumption in C/C++. The perl debugger I use leads me to believe that perl > stores all int

Atmoic operations in Multi-threaded Perl?

2005-07-06 Thread Siegfried Heintze
Can I assume that an auto-increment operation on an integer value is atomic (that is, cannot be interrupted by another thread)? This is a common assumption in C/C++. The perl debugger I use leads me to believe that perl stores all integers as strings however, in spite of my efforts to force them t