Subj : SpiderMonkey and thread safety
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : "Costas Harizakis" <harizak@speech.gr>
Date : Tue May 13 2003 07:22 pm

I am using the engine in a multithreaded environment. However, every single
thread is associated with its own Runtime, which is used to create exactly
one Context. Does the abovementioned configuration imply that thread safety
flags must be enabled during the engine build?

I've seen that some functions in jsdtoa.c for example, that compete for the
members of a global linked list - the author mentions though that race
conditions can only produce memory waste, no crashes though. Are there any
other implications, probably more difficult to discover?

--harizak

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