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On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 09:37 +1300, Jeff McClintock wrote:

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> > > "Shared data plus locking" is a pretty crap model in general, really.

> > > When people talk about all the complications that threads introduce,

> > > they're really talking about this.  Shared mutable state is the

> > cancer of multi-threaded programming.

>

> This should be tattooed on every newbie. ;)

>

> Visualize your GUI running on a 64-bit iPad in Madrid, and your DSP running

> on 32-bit Ubuntu in Seattle. Design your API accordingly.....

Indeed.
With respect to plugins, I deeply regret it's even *possible* to do

otherwise, but unfortunately sometimes reality gets in the way :)
-dr
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