Re: Multithreading

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 9 Sep 2006, at 15:11, Wim Oudshoorn wrote:

> It is probably not worth it.

I agree.

>   But I am getting quite frustrated
> with the multithreading problems, which unfortunately until
> now all turned out to be problems in gnustep-base (which
> is much harder for me to debug.)

Yes  ... its big and complicated and threading is tricky :-(
That means that the base library code is the most likely place to  
find any threading issues, as most user level applications avoid  
threading difficulties by using facilities provided in the base  
library (NSConnection for inter thread communication, perfoming a  
selecotr in the main thread etc).

If you have any threading testcases you could contribute to the  
testsuite, I would be really glad to have them ...

> Also the fact that most
> of the time when an actual dead lock occurs the stack trace is
> garbled does not help.

That's why I hate threaded code ... I don't use threads in my  
programs unless I really have to.