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Re: [pthreads] performance test using fib.scm
From: |
Wolfgang Jaehrling |
Subject: |
Re: [pthreads] performance test using fib.scm |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:10:10 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:16:04PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
> Still, for large fibonnaci numbers and large branch depths (many
> threads), Guile often crashes in realloc. That function should be
> thread safe, shouldn't it?
malloc() in glibc is thread-save, but not reentrant. Since the
behaviour of realloc() is unlikely to differ from malloc() in this
respect, you most certainly have to protect calls to it with a lock.
Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang