threadsafe

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adjective

That can be safely accessed from multiple threads.

UncommonScrabble 17

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adjectivethreadsafe (not comparable)

alternative thread-safe

  1. not comparablecomputingThat can be safely accessed from multiple threads.

    SessionFactory objects are threadsafe, so it is not necessary to obtain one for each thread.

    2006, Dave Minter, Jeff Linwood, Beginning Hibernate: From Novice to Professional
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    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.

    2004, Scott Oaks, Henry Wong, Java threads

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