Sideby side on a shady suburban street, in houses like temples to domestic gods, three families marinate in misery. They know one another, but what they don't realize is how their lives are secretly entangled. We're intended to pity them, although their troubles are so densely plotted they skirt the edge of irony; this is a literate soap opera in which beautiful people have expensive problems and we wouldn't mind letting them inherit some undistinguished problems of our own.
To be sure, one of the characters has a problem we don't envy. That would be Paul Gold (Joshua Jackson), a bright and handsome teenager who has been in a coma since an accident. Before that he'd been having an affair with the woman next door, Annette Jennings (Patricia Clarkson), so there were consolations in his brief conscious existence.
Now his mother Esther (Glenn Close), watches over him, reads to him, talks to him, trusts he will return to consciousness. His father Howard (Robert Klein) doesn't participate in this process, having written off his heir as a bad investment, but listen to how Esther talks to Howard: "You never even put your eyes on him. How do you think that makes him feel?" The dialogue gets a laugh from the heartless audience, but is it intended as funny, thoughtless, ironic, tender, or what? The movie doesn't give us much help in answering that question In a different kind of movie, we would be deeply touched by the mother's bedside vigil. In a very different kind of movie, like Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her," which is about two men at the bedsides of the two comatose women they love, we would key in to the weird-sad tone that somehow rises above irony into a kind of sincere melodramatic excess. But here--well, we know the Glenn Close character is sincere, but we can't tell what the film thinks about her, and we suspect it may be feeling a little more superior to her than it has a right to.
Written and directed by Rose Troche, based on stories by A. M. Homes, "The Safety of Objects" hammers more nails into the undead corpse of the suburban dream. Movies about the Dread Suburbs are so frightening that we wonder why everyone doesn't flee them, like the crowds in the foreground of Japanese monster movies.
"The Safety of Objects" travels its emotional wastelands in a bittersweet, elegiac mood. We meet a lawyer named Jim Train (Dermot Mulroney), who is passed over for partnership at his law firm, walks out in a rage, and lacks the nerve to tell his wife Susan (Moira Kelly). Neither one of them knows their young son Jake (Alex House) is conducting an affair--yes, an actual courtship--with a Barbie doll.
Next door is Helen (Mary Kay Place), who, if she is really going to spend the rest of her life picking up stray men for quick sex, should develop more of a flair. She comes across as desperate, although there's a nice scene where she calls the bluff of a jerk who succeeds in picking her up--and is left with the task of explaining why, if he really expected to bring someone home, his house is such a pigpen.
Let's see who else lives on the street. Annette, the Clarkson character, makes an unmistakable pitch to a handyman, who gets the message, rejects it, but politely thanks her for the offer. Annette is pathetic about men: She forgives her ex-husband anything, even when he skips his alimony payments, and lets a child get away with calling her a loser because she can't afford summer camp.
What comes across is that all of these people are desperately unhappy, are finding no human consolation or contact at home, are fleeing to the arms of strangers, dolls or the comatose, and place their trust, if the title is to be believed, in the safety of objects. I don't think that means objects will protect them. I think it means they can't hurt them.
Strewn here somewhere are the elements of an effective version of this story--an "Ice Storm" or "American Beauty," even a "My New Gun." But Troche's tone is so relentlessly, depressingly monotonous that the characters seem trapped in a narrow emotional range. They live out their miserable lives in one lachrymose sequence after another, and for us there is no relief. "The Safety of Objects" is like a hike through the swamp of despond, with ennui sticking to our shoes.
I'm trying to understand a bit more about object safety of traits. The rules definitely make sense in that they seem to care specifically about properties of the Self type and any arguments passed to the trait methods. The part I don't understand is why an object safe trait cannot have its return type specified by the caller, such as:
Generics in Rust are monomorphized during compilation. That means, one generic function in code would be compiled down to a whole set of functions - one for each used value of generic parameter. However, trait object have to generate virtual functions table which is the same, no matter how it is used, so it can't contain generic functions.
Thus monomorphizing the methods within the type-specified trait. Then I guess my only option would be to make separate containers for f64/f32/f16/etc-based trait objects and manage the casting between them manually. Fair enough.
It wouldn't help here anyway, since impl Trait in return position means "function implementation chooses the return type and doesn't disclose what exactly it is", not "caller chooses the return type".
Basically generics, alone, are not necessarily incompatible with dyn Traits, it's just that you can't have generic associated items within a dyn Traits, since that would require an infinitely big virtual function table, which is just technically not possible.
But whenever you fix, beforehand, the possible instantiations of these generics down to a fixed (and thus, upper-bounded), set of types, you no longer have that problem, which is what we have achieved by:
My concern is that they are referring to the same memory location. One thread starts reading that memory, so isn't it "locked out" then? Does the .NET handle synchronization for this critical section underneath? Or am I wrong in thinking that simultaneous reading needs synchronization?
What makes an object not thread safe? An object is not thread safe if the value/state of that object can change while a thread is reading it. This generally happens if a second thread changes this object's value while the first thread is reading it.
An immutable object, by definition, cannot change value/state. Since every time you read an immutable object it has the same value/state, you can have any number of threads read that object with no concerns.
And as long as the content of that memory area is immutable, all problems are solved. When it can change, there is a whole range of issues, the volatile keyword and the Interlocked class are some of the tools we use to solve those.
Simultaneous reads do not need synchronization. Since synchronization is only required for writers (or readers and at least one writer), immutable objects don't require synchronization, and are therefor threadsafe.
If concurrent reads did require synchronization, it would be close to impossible to write usefully multi-threaded code. To execute a piece of code for instance, the processor has to read the instruction stream, how would you write a lock function if the function itself had to protect against itself being executed concurrently :)?
Reading the same memory location can only be done in one CPU cycle by a specific thread. The order of read in this case does not matter since the underlying value does not change. Therefore there is no possibility of a read being inconsistent, so there is no need of synchronization at any level in this case.
Memory Management Units are the part of the processor that handles the reading of memory. If you have more than one, once in a blue moon 2 of them might try to read the same memory location in the same dozen nano-seconds, but no problems result seeing as they get the same answer.
Besides exceptions like mapped memory for drivers for instance, There is no problem for two threads reading simultaneously the same memory address. A problem may arise when one thread performs some writing data though. In this case, other threads may be prevented to read that object/data.
But the problem is not due to the simultaneity of the writings (at the lowest electronic level they occur one after the other anyway), the problem is rather that the object / set of data may lose their consistency. Usually one utilize a section critic to isolate some code that may not be read/written simultaneously by other threads.
If thread A writes price 100, and TAX is (fixed) 1, the product price will finally be set to 101. But what happens if thread B reads the price via getPrice() while thread A is at point CRITIC? The price returned to B will miss the TAX, and be wrong.
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