Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:14:35 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Hausner <alh@teleweb.at> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pthreads with sprintf/dtoa Message-ID: <200101262314.f0QNEZb01395@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:23:23 %2B0100." <01012621534501.00257@chuck.teleweb.at>
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> on Thu, 25 Jan 2001 Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> >__dtoa has static locals. Bad function, no biscuit.
> =
> I think this can be a serious problem for any threaded application,
> I have not tested your patch yet, you think this is only a temporary
> solution right? Have you commited this patch to current? Is somebody
> else working on that?
There are still serious problems; Tor pointed out that the Bigint =
freelist probably needs protection too.
Personally, I think the entire interface is totally bogus, and the =
allocator should just call malloc. I don't have any benchmarks to test =
printf speed though...
-- =
=2E.. every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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