Re: [Sbcl-devel] Re: [Sbcl-help] threads, streams, memory leak?

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-1] G=E1bor Melis wrote:

> I would say that with the threaded version the individual finalizers=20
> need only be thread safe (as opposed to reentrant).

Good point. Provided that the second call occurs in another thread this is=
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indeed the case; and indeed I think this was something David tried to=20
bring home to me a couple of days back on #lisp. I seem to be a bit slow=20
on the pickup...

One question for those of you running threaded systems: could someone=20
outline pros and cons for a separate finalizer thread?

Cheers,

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