Re: [PD-dev] Is gensym() threadsafe?

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What would be gained by that?

To ensure that the caller won't block PD, unless the caller explicitly calls fread, usleep or other non-realtime functions while holding the lock.

well, it's not as easy as that ... pd is not designed to be a multithreaded application ... so someone could just say ... "don't use threads"

imo it wouldn't be a bad idea to rewrite pd with threadsafety in mind ...

I definitely think something like that should go in. If you are not running realtime and aquire the lock you potentionally can screw up the sound in a way that can only be solved by letting yourself be running realtime.

sure, but that's how things work in pd :-(

tim