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

On 30/11/10 22:25, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:20:52PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > We have a thread-safe problem in GenericFunction with the member object
> >
> >    mutable Data data;
> >
> > Any ideas on how to get rid of it? We really should pass data
> > through the function interfaces, but we're constrained in this case
> > by the UFC interface.
> >
> > Garth
>
> Is it possible to have a pool of Data objects and have each thread
> select the proper one:
>
>    data[thread_id]

That's messy because the Data object is buried deep in the code.

I think that we should avoid this design (private scratch space) and try 
to figure out an alternative. I removed the private scratch from 
Function the other day.

> --
> Anders