July 31, 2001
7:36 p.m.
Dan Sugalski wrote:
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If you hold the lock during an I/O operation, you'll lose time you could have otherwise used.
"Doctor it hurts when I do that." :) We just don't hold the lock during I/O or other computations that do not affect Python interpreter data structures. -- Take a recipe. Leave a recipe. Python Cookbook! http://www.ActiveState.com/pythoncookbook