Subj : Re: SpiderMonkey and thread safety
To   : Costas Harizakis <harizak@speech.gr>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Tue May 13 2003 02:01 pm

Costas Harizakis wrote:

>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?
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Yes.  See, e.g., news://news.mozilla.org:119/3EB7DB18.1090006@meer.net 
and followups.

/be

>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?
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>--harizak
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