Dictionary thread-safe

[danielnaber]

This is more of a question: is Dictionary thread-safe or are there any plans to guarantee its thread-safety? Here's my use case: I create a Dictionary at runtime, which takes some time, so I'd like to do it only once and use it for all threads.

[dweiss]

Dictionary is thread safe (it's essentially the automaton and associated metadata). DictionaryLookup isn't thread safe, but is cheap to create and dispose (so it makes no sense to cache).

[danielnaber]

Great - assuming that's not going to change, I suggest adding that information to the Javadoc (both to Dictionary and DictionaryLookup).