Re: Hash table thread safety

"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 31 Mar 2026, at 15:33, Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at tfeb dot org) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I've also always rather liked macros like
> 
> (defmacro atomically (&body forms)
>  ;; Not safe in interpreted code I am sure
>  `(with-lock ((load-time-value (make-lock :name "Atomic" :recursivep t)))
>     ,@forms))))

... And every time I write this thing I realise a few hours later that no, that is not the same thing at all as a lock belonging to an object.  My brain is tiny.

--tim

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