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Thomas Karcher wrote: > Hi Dean, > > > If someone from the ithreads development team is listening: I guess this > is an issue worth considering to have a solution for ... e. g. a > thread-safe array (similar to Thread::Queue) or a more fine-granular > locking mechanism for shared arrays ... not that I really thought it > through :) > FWIW: Thread::Queue *is* a thread::shared array, w/ just a few methods added. And it suffers from the same issues as your sort-merge, assuming enough threads are accessing the queue concurrently. The core issue is the global lock on the shared interpretter; until thats removed (which doesn't seem likely in the near future), shared data will remain a "contentious" issue.Thread Previous