Re: Is setf atomic?

Hi

I cannot speak for LW, but I would be surprised if you had assignment  
atomic in a "regular" (for an appropriate definition of "regular")  
programming language.

I can see the advantages of having atomic "general write" operations,  
but then your standard matrix-multiply test would run pretty slowly.

Cheers

marco



On Nov 6, 2007, at 16:09 , Pascal Costanza wrote:

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> Hi,
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> Are a setf on a simple variable, and a setf on a property list  
> (i.e., a (setf getf)), thread-safe (atomic) operations in LispWorks?
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> Thanks,
> Pascal
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> Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc@p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net
> Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
> Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
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