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Subject: Re: Container libraries
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message  

> People usually want the wrong sort. If someone needs to access
> a container simultaneously from multiple tasks, then they should
> privide the synchronization, not the container. 
 
But this way you will have duplication of effort. Each client/application
who wants to use the container needs to add code to provide the synch. outside
the container.

What one can do is provide 2 versions of the container, one that is synch. and
one that is not. If the client knows there will be one task only who will
access the container, then use the non-synch. version (which is assumed
to be a little faster), else use the other.