From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-06T07:37:48+09:00
Subject: Re: thread mystery

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> No idea, except that it seems to be related to the thread creation (maybe
> because it's within the sync block). The following works around it, and is
> probably more efficient anyway. I guess the semantics are close to the
> original.

very interesting joel.  thanks.

i seem to always end up using to Queue with threads these days anyhow - so i
guess this is fine...

i suppose it makes sense that one shouldn't create threads from inside a sync
block since it uses Thread.critical inside and, therefore, must assume only
only thread is running at times.  i wonder if there is a pattern for safely
creating threads from within another taking into account
Thread.critical=true...

cheers.

-a
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