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From: sbelmont700@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Safety of unprotected concurrent operations on constant objects
Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 06:43:04 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2014-05-03T06:43:04-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7403d130-8b42-43cd-a0f1-53ba34b46141@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnlm6mkg.i0l.lithiumcat@nat.rebma.instinctive.eu>

On Friday, May 2, 2014 4:42:56 AM UTC-4, Natasha Kerensikova wrote:
> 
> Is it safe to have many tasks performing operations concurrently on
> 
> constant objects?
> 

In the general case, no.  Suppose your constant object is of a private type T, which contains an access value to something else.  Some operation O might read and write to the other object in a non-task safe manner, and so invoking O from two different tasks might cause any number of fun shenanigans.

-sb


  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-03 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-02  8:42 Safety of unprotected concurrent operations on constant objects Natasha Kerensikova
2014-05-03 13:43 ` sbelmont700 [this message]
2014-05-03 20:54   ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-05-03 21:40     ` Simon Wright
2014-05-04  0:28       ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-05-04  7:46         ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-05-04  8:06           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-04 15:18           ` sbelmont700
2014-05-04 15:57             ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-05-04 18:30               ` sbelmont700
2014-05-04 19:34                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-05 19:04               ` Brad Moore
2014-05-05 21:23                 ` Brad Moore
2014-05-04 21:44                   ` Shark8
2014-05-05  8:39                     ` Simon Wright
2014-05-05 15:11                       ` Brad Moore
2014-05-05 16:36                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-06  6:00                           ` Brad Moore
2014-05-06  8:11                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-06  8:48                               ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2014-05-06  9:49                                 ` G.B.
2014-05-06 12:19                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-06 12:58                                     ` G.B.
2014-05-06 15:00                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-06 16:24                                         ` G.B.
2014-05-06 19:14                                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-07  6:49                                             ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-05-07  7:40                                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-07 11:25                                                 ` G.B.
2014-05-07 12:14                                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-07 13:45                                                     ` G.B.
2014-05-07 14:08                                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-07 17:45                                                   ` Simon Wright
2014-05-07 18:28                                                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-05-07  4:59                                         ` J-P. Rosen
2014-05-07  7:30                                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-07  8:26                                             ` J-P. Rosen
2014-05-07  9:09                                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-07 11:29                                                 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-05-07 12:36                                                   ` Safety of unprotected concurrent operations on constant objects (was: Safety of unprotected concurrent operations on constant objects) Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-07 14:04                               ` Safety of unprotected concurrent operations on constant objects G.B.
2014-05-08  4:12                               ` Brad Moore
2014-05-08  8:20                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-08 10:30                                   ` G.B.
2014-05-09 13:14                                   ` Brad Moore
2014-05-09 19:00                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-10 12:30                                       ` Brad Moore
2014-05-10 20:27                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-11  6:56                                           ` Brad Moore
2014-05-11 18:01                                           ` Brad Moore
2014-05-12  8:13                                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-13  4:50                                               ` Brad Moore
2014-05-13  8:56                                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-13 15:01                                                   ` Brad Moore
2014-05-13 15:38                                                     ` Brad Moore
2014-05-13 16:46                                                       ` Simon Wright
2014-05-13 19:15                                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-13 16:08                                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-13 20:27                                                       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-05-14  4:30                                                         ` Shark8
2014-05-14 21:37                                                           ` Randy Brukardt
2014-05-14 21:56                                                             ` Robert A Duff
2014-05-15  1:21                                                               ` Shark8
2014-05-14 14:30                                                         ` Brad Moore
2014-05-15  8:03                                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-15 13:21                                                           ` Robert A Duff
2014-05-15 14:27                                                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-15 15:53                                                               ` Robert A Duff
2014-05-15 16:30                                                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-26 17:11                                                                   ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-05-08 19:52                                 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-05-06 16:22                             ` Robert A Duff
2014-05-06 19:07                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-08  5:03                                 ` Brad Moore
2014-05-08 12:03                                   ` Brad Moore
2014-05-08 19:57                                     ` Randy Brukardt
2014-05-09  2:58                                       ` Brad Moore
2014-05-05 20:29                         ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-05-08  3:41                           ` Randy Brukardt
2014-05-08  9:07                             ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-05-08 19:35                               ` Randy Brukardt
2014-05-08  3:12                       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-05-05 22:30                     ` Brad Moore
2014-05-04 16:04             ` Peter Chapin
2014-05-04 18:07               ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-05-04 18:55           ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-05-04 19:36             ` Simon Wright
2014-05-04 20:29               ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-05-05 22:46             ` Brad Moore
2014-05-04 20:25           ` Shark8
2014-05-04 23:33             ` sbelmont700
2014-05-05  7:38             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-08  3:45               ` Randy Brukardt
2014-05-08  3:19 ` Randy Brukardt
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