Re: [Rdkit-devel] the RDKit and thread safety

[Greg L. <gre...@gm...>]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Greg Landrum <gre...@gm...> wrote:
>
> One of the joys of working with knime is that it makes it really easy
> to run RDKit code in parallel. One of the pains is that this is done
> using multi-threading, which quickly reveals that some of the RDKit
> code is not quite as thread safe as I had hoped that it was.
>
> In order to address some of these problems, I created a branch where
> I've fixed a fair number of things already:
> https://rdkit.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rdkit/branches/MultiThreading_25Feb2012
>
> I'm going to hold off on merging this with the trunk until I've done
> some more testing with different compilers.

I merged the multi-threaded code into the trunk this morning.
I am currently maintaining a list of what has been tested here:
http://code.google.com/p/rdkit/wiki/ThreadSafety

-greg