[Info-vax] Still no DIR/SORT_BY_TIME

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-08-18 18:01:09 +0000, David Froble said:

> Locking is ALWAYS a cooperative thing.

Ayup.

> It's always possible to not conform to locking.  Just be careful when 
> doing so.  Read only usually is safe.

Constants?  Entirely read-only, with no changes to the values?  Sure.   
But beware of shared memory on Alpha multiprocessors: 
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/407


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