What got me started was following multiple threads calling the same MIME decomp code, and preempting each other. I flashed back to the the techniques to do recursion, and the use of the activation record to store all working variables going through the common code on each cycle through. In OO, a new object encapsulates all of the object specific working space (or pointers to heap space).

Would my package allocate a hash during thread 1(T1), then be preempted by T2, which, finding the hash already there just start stuffing more into it.

My training goes back to linear shared physical memory space for all processes; not this managed buckets of private pointers to allocated heap space.

I feel better now... thanks ... I guess I am a hand-on sort of person.

In reply to Re^2: Is a called package in thread storage? by Wiggins
in thread Is a called package in thread storage? by Wiggins

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