Thread safety comprehensive examination

[BenjaminTJohnson]

Description

This issue is opened to address the need for exploring and testing the thread safety of the CRTM. Given the increasing use of multi-threaded environments in scientific computing, ensuring that CRTM is thread-safe is crucial for its reliability and performance in such contexts.

Objectives

1. Identify Potential Thread Safety Issues: Review the CRTM codebase, particularly focusing on shared resources, global variables, and parallel execution segments, to identify potential thread safety issues.

2. Develop Thread Safety Tests: Create a suite of tests that can be used to assess the thread safety of CRTM. These tests should cover various scenarios of concurrent access and modifications by multiple threads.

3. Implement Fixes for Identified Issues: Based on the findings from the thread safety tests, implement necessary changes to ensure thread safety. This may involve modifying global variables, adjusting locks, or redesigning certain parts of the code.

4. Documentation: Update the documentation to reflect any changes made to the codebase and provide guidelines on how to use CRTM in multi-threaded environments.

5. Continuous Integration Testing: Integrate the thread safety tests into the continuous integration system to ensure ongoing thread safety compliance.

Expected Outcomes

• A report on the current state of thread safety in CRTM.
• A robust set of thread safety tests that can be regularly used to validate the CRTM.
• An updated, thread-safe version of CRTM, if necessary.
• Documentation that guides users on how to safely run CRTM in multi-threaded environments.

Call for Contributions

We encourage contributions from the community, especially from those who have experience in multi-threaded programming and thread safety. Contributions can be in the form of code reviews, writing tests, proposing fixes, or updating documentation.

Contact

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