[Biococoa-dev] immutability and multithreading

[Charles PARNOT]

I just remembered another advantage of immutable objects: 
multithreading. In general, immutable objects are safe, mutable are 
not. So if you only have mutable objects, you have to copy them 
before use and make sure the copy is private to the thread.

Multithreading-support is probably not a priority, but is something 
to also keep in mind.

Charles

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