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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <9qhcd2$amt$1@news.huji.ac.il>, Ehud Lamm says...
>
>Jean-Marc Bourguet <jbourguet@free.fr> wrote in message
>news:3BCC01B1.18C18C98@free.fr...
>> I'm not for making a container "threadsafe"  to the point where
>> several tasks may modify the container without providing their
>> synchronisation.
>> In my experience
>>    * most containers are accessed only by one task
>>    * for those who are not, an explicit synchronisation is needed for
>> other
>>      purpose as the container is not the only part member of the
>> datastructure
>>      which has to be modified atomically.
>>
>
>I agree, that we should not attempt to  make everything protected.

I find myself having to implement small queues with controlled types a lot. :-(

This issue is why Booch also has tasksafe and non-tasksafe versions of
everything.

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