[Python-Dev] Software Transactional Memory for Python

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:43:33 -0700
> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > This sounds like a very interesting idea to pursue, even if it's late,
> > and even if it's experimental, and even if it's possible to cause
> > deadlocks (no news there). I propose that we offer a C API in Python
> > 3.3 as well as an extension module that offers the proposed decorator.
> > The C API could then be used to implement alternative APIs purely as
> > extension modules (e.g. would a deadlock-detecting API be possible?).
>
> We could offer the C API without shipping an extension module ourselves.
> I don't think we should provide (and maintain!) a Python API that helps
> users put themselves in all kind of nasty situations. There is enough
> misunderstanding around the GIL and multithreading already.
>

+1
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