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[Marc Glisse <>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, giannis assiouras wrote:

> Dear Marc,
>
> I am trying to fix the reference counting mechanism for CGAL in order to use
> the library for multi-threaded applications. What I have done so far is to
> use gcc atomics for the manipulation of the counter inside Handle.h and
> Handle_for.h.  With this solution I can get quite a good performance for my
> multi-threaded application without any errors.
>  
> However, I am quite sure that there are some other parts of the code that
> need to be secured like the update_exact method Lazy constructed objects.
> Could you please highlight to me any other code that I need to secure in
> order to make the library thread safe?

Sorry, I never performed a full audit of the library for thread-unsafe 
code.

> > Are you sure the filtered version of Simple_cartesian<mpq_class> is
> > not good enough for you?

Did you measure this version and find it too slow?

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Marc Glisse