[saga-rg] Re: SAGA, object states, and concurrency

[Andre Merzky]

hi,

Quoting [Thilo Kielmann] (Aug 01 2006):
> > > The related problem of thread-safety for SAGA operations is not
> > > applicable on the level of the SAGA specification. It has to be addressed
> > > on the level of language bindings. 
> > 
> > I agree to that to some extend - the spec should, IMHO,
> > limit itself to the statement 'SAGA implementations MUST be
> > thread safe'.
> 
> Disagree. This would again prescribe the use of thread-safe implementations.
> So you would enforce the overhead of thread-safety (e.g. locking all over the
> place) also to Fortran ???
> Really, "we don't prescibe anything" also excludes prescribing thread safety.
> 
> Keep it for the language binding. That's where it belongs.

Fortran is a good point...  I agree.

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