From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2009-02-06T16:17:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Using a Class (not an instance) into threads

Think when he said shared state he actually meant shared code. Maybe  
not.

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On 06/02/2009, at 5:34 PM, Simon Krahnke <overlord@gmx.li> wrote:

> * Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> (14:44) schrieb:
>
>> 2009/2/4 Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>:
>>>> I did not look too closely but it seems that the shared state is  
>>>> used
>>>> read only.  You can easily verify yourself by simply freezing it  
>>>> and
>>>> see whether you get errors from that.
>>>
>>> You are right! The only writtable variables are local variables  
>>> inside class
>>> methods!
>>
>> Also, using a Class instead of instances is faster since there is no
>> need of "initialize" for each usage, am I right?
>
> I don't quite understand that question. Classes are instances, too.  
> And
> objects without state don't need an initialize method.
>
> mfg,                  simon .... l
>