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Subject: Re: [math] thread-safety of DescriptiveStatistics?
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From: Mark Diggory <mdiggory@gmail.com>

No, I wouldn't expect it to be thread safe at this time. This design 
decision was made for performance reasons. Your best bet would be to 
wrap it in a thread safe wrapper to block your calls to externally:

http://www.javaworld.com/jw-08-1998/jw-08-techniques-p5.html

-cheers,
Mark Diggory

Baker, Anthony wrote:

>Is DescriptiveStatistics safe to use in a multi-threaded environment?  I have a statistics producer that is accessed by multiple threads and thus simultaneous invocations of addValue() are likely.  Is this ok?  What about changes to the window size?
>
>Any insight you can shed on the intended usage pattern is greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Anthony
>
>  
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