[Python-Dev] Threading idea -- exposing a global thread lock

[Raymond Hettinger]

[Samuele Pedroni]
> there's no sys.checkinterval in Jython. Implementing this would need the
> introduction of some kind of GIL implementation in Jython, the JVM has no 
> primitive for global critical sections.

Wouldn't Java implement this directly by suspending and resuming the other 
threads (being careful to avoid access to monitored resources and to pair the 
suspend/resume operations in a try/finally or with-statement to prevent 
deadlocks)?


Raymond