On 10/12/2013 02:43 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
<rant>
I still simply wait for a latex run to finish before doing anything
else, so multithreading is of no help to me. Morever, I was being
almost riduculed when I was manifesting my contrariety to this feature.
Oh, well...
</rant>
I agree with you that some people were overly confident about this and
didn't take your reservations seriously enough. That said, however,
while there have been bugs, and this one is fairly serious, it's
surprising to me as well how rare those bugs seem to have been. And easy
to diagnose and fix, except (again) for this one.
I use background compilation all the time, and I've never had a problem.
I'm in the process of auditing all the static variables, making them
const where possible and flagging them with comments where not, so other
people can check them. This is surely something we ought to have done a
while ago.
Richard
