Multi threading support was Re: [fpc-devel] Russian locale information not compatible withFPClocale variables

Micha Nelissen micha at neli.hopto.org
Thu Jul 31 12:10:26 CEST 2008


Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> Michael Schnell schrieb:
> 
>> Now you suggest that all procedures an instance of this kind of class 
>> are protected and thus thread-safe by definition.
> 
> They aren't but it makes things easier. Just look at the linux kernel: 
> it's smp support started also with BKL: the Big Kernel Lock

That's not so good example since now it's almost gone. That suggests 
this synchronized keyword would be deprecated in a few years as well ;-)

Micha



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