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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joachim B Haga wrote:
> "Martin Sandve Alnæs" <martinal@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > 2008/11/2 Joachim B Haga <jobh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > > > On Saturday 01 November 2008 17:10:09 Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> > > > > > 2008/11/1 Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > > > > > So if we remove
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  mutable Cell* _cell
> > > > > > >  mutable int _facet
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > from the private member data of Function, does this resolve the
> > > > > > > biggest design issue for running multi-threaded?
> > > > > > Yes. Otherwise the threads will overwrite each others current cell all
> > > > > > the time.
> > > If you can get away with making these variables static, thread-local
> > > variables (storage class __thread) is simpler.
> >
> > But static... That sounds very limiting.
>
> Perhaps. In that case, I'd suggest just letting each thread have its own
> instance of any mutable classes, if that's possible.

Isn't Martin's suggestion that the necessary data be passed to the eval 
function much simpler?

Garth

> -j.
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