[cgma-dev] [Fwd: PyTAPS Multiple Geometry Load Failure]

[Jed Brown]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:33:05 -0500, Tim Tautges <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> CGM uses a number of singleton classes, and here I'm taking thread
> safe to mean you can have multiple instances (I guess they could be in
> the same thread, for that matter).  Because of the statics used in
> singletons, you can't use two copies of cgm simultaneously.

That's what I thought, but this is a rather unconventional definition of
"thread-safe" which normally refers to calling the library from
concurrent threads.

Jed