[pypy-dev] Thinking about the GIL

[Ben.Young at sungard.com]

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> From: pypy-dev-bounces at codespeak.net [mailto:pypy-dev-
> bounces at codespeak.net] On Behalf Of Benjamin Peterson
> Sent: 14 March 2011 19:29
> To: Timothy Baldridge
> Cc: PyPy Dev
> Subject: Re: [pypy-dev] Thinking about the GIL
> 
> 2011/3/14 Timothy Baldridge <tbaldridge at gmail.com>:
> > They may not be thread-safe, but as far as a program goes, do we
> > really care? If I have two threads adding items to the same list,
> > should I really be expecting the interpreter to keep things
straight?
> > What's wrong with forcing the user to lock structures before editing
> > them? This is something that Java, and C#, and C++ all require.
> 
> Yes, the Python interpreter should never crash because of user
> mistakes.
> 

C# structures aren't thread-safe, but you can't crash the CLR by using
them in a multithreaded manner

Ben

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> Benjamin
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