i noted earlier, the question does not appear to be, how i might or might not lock it. the access is not in application code, it is in pcl. stack level 23 reads as if the problem occurs in SB-PCL::CHECK-WRAPPER-VALIDITY levels 20 — 21 read as if that code does not lock the hash table, but rather, as if the SB-PCL::WITH-WORLD-LOCK in SB-PCL::CHECK-WRAPPER-VALIDITY may be the only guard, with the presumption that all access to that hash table follow the same practice. On 2014-08-05, at 11:31, Stas Boukarev