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What does threadsafe mean?

Recently I tried to Access a textbox from a thread (other than the UI thread) and an exception was thrown. …

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efficient thread-safe singleton in C++

The usual pattern for a singleton class is something like static Foo &getInst() { static Foo *inst = NULL; if(inst == …

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iphone ios running in separate thread

What is the best way to run code on a separate thread? Is it: [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector: @selector(doStuff) toTarget:self …

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How to create a thread/Task with a continuous loop?

I am looking for the correct way/structure to create a loop in a Thread/Task... The reason for this …

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What's the best way of implementing a thread-safe Dictionary?

I was able to implement a thread-safe Dictionary in C# by deriving from IDictionary and defining a private SyncRoot object: …

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Queue.Queue vs. collections.deque

I need a queue which multiple threads can put stuff into, and multiple threads may read from. Python has at …

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Is local static variable initialization thread-safe in C++11?

I know this is an often asked question, but as there are so many variants, I'd like to re-state it, …

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Are non-synchronised static methods thread safe if they don't modify static class variables?

I was wondering if you have a static method that is not synchronised, but does not modify any static variables …

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Is malloc thread-safe?

Is the malloc() function re-entrant?

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Difference between -pthread and -lpthread while compiling

What is the difference between gcc -pthread and gcc -lpthread which is used while compiling multithreaded programs?

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