[Python-ideas] Add faster locks to the threading module?

[Sturla Molden]

Den 21.07.2010 02:51, skrev Sturla Molden:
>
> Therefore I think both a spinlock and a gillock should be added to the 
> threading module. These are synchronization methods that should be 
> available.
>

Avtually, a spinlock would probably not even be feasible in Python: The 
GIL is a mutex, and we would have to give it up before we could spin on 
the lock, and reacquire afterwards. So the cost of a kernel mutex object 
is still there. The gillock is possibly the only way of getting a fast 
lock object in Python.

Sturla
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