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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On 08/01/2012 07:06 PM, Rafael Silva wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm completely new in CGAL. I'm analyzing the possibility of use CGAL
> spatial sorting algorithms in a application that I'm working on, but I
> need to be know how is their behavior in a multithreaded environment.
>
> On the manual I.2.1 (Preliminaries) it says "it is not safe to access
> the same object from different threads at the same time, unless
> otherwise specified in the class documentation.", and I didn't found any
> reference about thread safety in Spatial Sorting documentation
> (XIII.64). Any chance of this module be thread-safe?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rafael
According to http://www.cgal.org/releases.html

the kd-tree is thread-safe in read-only mode. If you make parallel 
requests on the tree this is OK.

Sebastien.