text/template: document thread safety #6985
Description
by infogulch:
None of the template modules specify whether they are thread-safe. Specifically, neither text/template nor html/template contain the word "thread" at all: http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/ http://golang.org/pkg/html/template/ Since net/http spawns separate goroutines for each connection and html/template is so commonly used with it (see various official tutorials), I believe it is highly likely that html/template is, in fact, thread safe. However, the usual assumption is that a module is not thread safe unless specifically indicated otherwise. They should specify if they are thread-safe or not, and which operations are thread safe if not all.