Can cmecab-java handle concurrent transactions?

[Franz Allan Valencia See]

I brought the idea to my colleagues to replace our GoSen with cmecab-java.

One of the issues that was raised was concurrency. Pardon for the really stupid question, but is cmecab-java (or MeCab for that matter) can handle concurrent requests safely?

Looking at the java code of cmecab-java, the analyzer seems to be thread-safe. However, I'm not sure if same can be said for MeCab (or their c++ in between).

Thanks,

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[Kohei TAKETA]

Hello,

Franz Allan Valencia See <fran...@gmail.com>:

> One of the issues that was raised was concurrency. Pardon for the really
> stupid question, but is cmecab-java (or MeCab for that matter) can handle
> concurrent requests safely?

cmecab-java (and underlying MeCab library) is thread-safe as long as
each thread uses different Tagger instance.
It also applies to Tokenizers and Analyzers.

You may think it's too resource-consuming to have multiple tagger
instances, but it's not. MeCab effectively shares dictionary data
between tagger instances.

Regards,
Kohei Taketa

[Franz Allan Valencia See]

I see.

Thanks :-)