# How to process a dictionary with multi tasking?

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If you’re writing to the dictionary, no. But concurrent reads should be fine, unless I’m deeply misunderstanding how Dict is implemented.

Edit:

> [@Is reading from a dict always threadsafe?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-reading-from-a-dict-always-threadsafe/87287/2):
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> In general, reads to Dicts (and almost any data structure will be thread safe) if there aren’t any writes.

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