On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote: > And this is not related to thread-safety at all. The "safe call" means > nothing but *reentrant*. > That all changed with the introduction of multi-core systems. But in those days everything was inline. Now a days everything is running in parallel.