[stringtemplate-interest] Synchronization error in ST implementation.

[Terence Parr]

On Sep 18, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> Here's a thought I have. From the doco for ST:
>
> "made static maps in STG synchronized, also synchronized the look  
> up/def methods for templates in STG"
>
> Well, this is not technically an error, but why does ST synchronize?

   Because multiple threads can be adding looking up and adding  
things at the same time.

> Surely the user should synchronize, if needed, so that everyone
> else does not pay the price of locking.

   It's not easy to wrap everything in ST in something that will  
synchronize it from outside; well I haven't looked into that, but  
speed is not seem to be a problem for me.  Anybody noticed a problem  
so far?

Ter