[Thread-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] Re: marking shared-ness

[Sean Jensen_Grey]

> > Since Python has nothing really private, this implies in
> > fact to protect every single object for free threading,
> > although nobody wants this in the first place to happen.
> 
> How does Java solve this problem?  (Is this analagous to native vs. green
> threads?)
> 
> > Python is not designed for that. Why do you want to enforce
> > the impossible, letting every object pay a high penalty
> > to become completely thread-safe?
> 
> Hmm, how about declaring only certain builtins as free-thread safe?  Or is
> "the impossible" necessary because of the nature of incref/decref?

http://www.javacats.com/US/articles/MultiThreading.html

I would like

sync foo:
        bloc of code here

maybe we could merge in some Occam while were at it. B^)


sync would be a most excellent operator in python.