From: Jim Weirich <jim.weirich@...>
Date: 2008-12-04T03:57:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20269] Re: autoload and concurrency

On Dec 3, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Brent Roman wrote:
> +1
>
> Why can't that "special value" be a kind of Mutex?
> Each thread tries to aquire it.  The first succeeds, later threads  
> block.
> As the later threads unblock, each redundantly "requires" the files  
> needs
> for the constant,
> which have just been loaded by the first thread, so all the later  
> threads
> quickly give
> up the Mutex and continue.


How do you prevent deadlocks?

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