[Ecls-list] hash-table implicit mp:lock

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Matthew Mondor <mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net>wrote:

> I noticed that ECL hash tables are automatically thread-synchronized
> using a lock.  I was wondering if this was inspired from other
> implementations?  Or does ECL itself need this other than for package
> hash tables?
>

I finally found some time to commit this. Hash tables, just like other
objects (arrays, lists, structures) are no longer implicitly locked. It is
the user's responsibility to ensure consistency of them all using locks,
mutexes or whatever other means he wishes to.

Juanjo

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