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threadsafe

adj

Etymology

From thread + safe.

  1. derived from *solh₂-✻ — “whole, every”
  2. derived from *salwos✻
  3. derived from salvus
  4. derived from sauf
  5. inherited from sauf
  6. compounded as threadsafe — “thread + safe”

Definitions

  1. That can be safely accessed from multiple threads.

    • Only a few collection classes are threadsafe. As we'll see later, being threadsafe does not necessarily mean that you can safely use them in every multithreaded program.
    • SessionFactory objects are threadsafe, so it is not necessary to obtain one for each thread.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for threadsafe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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