Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes:
> Sorry for asking a stupid question, but why is it that we want the
> gensym counter to be thread-local? Just to avoid the mutex? TBH I
> don't think it's that big of a point of contention. This risks
> devolution into bike-shed-landia tho...
It's a reasonable question. I don't feel strongly about it, but I
prefer lock-free programming where practical, and in this case there's
really no need for coordination between threads. Indeed, these UUIDs
are already designed to avoid collisions between multiple _sessions_
without coordination. So why bother with the lock?
Mark
