Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so i don't see any major downside to a global mutex vs the nastiness of > deadlocks and handling them. the mutex means no difficult coding issues > and it can handle all the different (i agree with dan and vote for one > common scan iterator) possible scan iterators.
While I'm not against a global mutex to protect user code from undefined behavior of traversing a PMC (Iff we will work around user problems), I don't see the point, why we should use a scheme that isn't thread-safe per se, adds overhead to DOD runs, and worse is really cache unfriendly. Please read (and comment :) my summary posted separately. > uri leo
