how to make a function thread-safe ?

[Aahz Maruch]

>From robinjim at earthlink.net:
>
> So, I have probably been making things overly complicated for myself since I
> do not write functions that use global data.  I assume such a function is
> also thread-safe if it treats its parameter list as read-only (probably as
> any "good" function should).  Correct?

Exactly.

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