Re: [Gnash-commit] [SCM] Gnash branch, master, updated. release_0_8_9_final-2127-g2e5e573

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 09:50:48AM +0000, Bastiaan Jacques wrote:
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> commit 2e5e5737faca9936e6a8645e69b380dddc52bf61
> Author: Bastiaan Jacques <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Jun 10 11:45:28 2014 +0200
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>     Switch the GcResource container type to forward_list.
>     
>     We don't make use of bidirectional access, so a singly linked list
>     is adequate. The order of elements seems to be irrelevant, so
>     it doesn't matter that we now push elements at the front rather
>     than the back.

I think the reason to push at the front and pop from the back was
the possible concurrent access to that list by different threads.

--strk;