Re: Question about multithreads

["John Cupitt" <jcupitt gmail com>]

On 10/31/06, John Cupitt <jcupitt gmail com> wrote:
> If the value doesn't change, or you don't mind if changes are not seen
> by other threads for a while, then it's OK to skip the mutex.

I forgot to say:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Atomic-Operations.html

Can save you an expensive mutex. But you need to use them very carefully.

John