[Cython] Acquisition counted cdef classes

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Oct 24 23:03:32 CEST 2011


mark florisson wrote:
> These will by default not lock for operations to allow
> e.g. one thread to iterate over the list and another thread to index
> it without lock contention and other general overhead.

I don't think that's safe. You can't say "I'm not modifying
this, so I don't need to lock it" because there may be another
thread that *is* in the midst of modifying it.

-- 
Greg


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