[MacRuby-devel] thread-safety and collections in macruby

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Terry Moore wrote:

> Yes. But he does state it is a read only not modified array. My understanding is. 'Array' is an NSMutableArray, I was merely suggesting using freeze to throw that exception just in case there maybe some code attempting to write/modify.
> 
> Mutex is the way to go but it also has an overhead.

Didn't somebody (Ernie?) already post a set of mix-ins for the mutable object classes that used a per-object GCD queue to serialize operations against the object?  If the mail archives were easier to search, I'd pull it up, but it isn't and I'm too lazy. :)

- Jordan

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