From: Mage <mage@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T22:15:46+09:00
Subject: Re: xml/libxml thread safety

Ross Bamford wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 01:58 +0900, Mage wrote:
>   
>> my simple question is that is libxml thread-safe? I would like to use it 
>> in production environment.
>>     
>
> (I assume you mean libxml-ruby, rather than libxml itself?)
>   
True.
> The simple answer is probably not. We do have an open bug[1] regarding
> cross-thread synchronisation, and though I've been unable to reproduce
> it so far, I take that to mean it's probably platform/configure/compiler
> specific. Most of the other open bugs pertain to pointer handling, and
> have the potential to get 'interesting' in a multi-threaded program.
>   
I simply want to generate an xml file with root 'ads' and nodes 'ad' 
(and subnodes of course).
Since the generation uses network traffic and image manipulation I think 
multithreading will enchant the performance.

Should I create every 'ad' node with Monitor.synchronize? Is this 
enough? The subnodes of 'ad' nodes won't share any data.

       Mage