Re: [pthreads] performance test using fib.scm

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On 10Dec2002 10:10PM (+0100), Wolfgang Jaehrling wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:16:04PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
> > Still, for large fibonnaci numbers and large branch depths (many
> > threads), Guile often crashes in realloc.  That function should be
> > thread safe, shouldn't it?
> 
> malloc() in glibc is thread-save, but not reentrant.  Since the
> behaviour of realloc() is unlikely to differ from malloc() in this
> respect, you most certainly have to protect calls to it with a lock.
> 

Huh? Doesn't malloc do it's own locking when modifying global data
structures?

 - Maciej