Thanks Jacques! On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 6:47 AM Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote:
> Yes, that is true. Allocators, buffers and pretty much everything inbetween > is thread safe. Locking around the memory backing a buffer itself needs to > be managed in the app. You can review the doc here which talks more about > the structure of the allocators: > > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/java/memory/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/memory/README.md > > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:08 PM Li Jin <ice.xell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey folks, > > > > I am studying a bit of the buffer allocators code in the Java library. > From > > my understanding of the code, the buffer allocators are thread safe. > i.e., > > you can use the same buffer allocator to multiple threads, as well as > > creating child allocators from the same allocator and use them in > different > > threads. > > > > Is my understanding correct? I also get this question from other users > so I > > think it will be helpful to put that in the doc as well. > > > > Thanks, > > Li > > >
