[Python-ideas] Thread-safe generators
Serhiy Storchaka
storchaka at gmail.com
Sat Apr 15 06:26:04 EDT 2017
On 15.04.17 11:55, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Serhiy Storchaka writes:
>
> > The first thread just sets the running flag (as in current code). Due to
> > GIL this doesn't need additional synchronization.
>
> Can we assume this lack of additional synchronization for other
> implementations? If not, do we care?
Other implementations should have atomic test-and-set operations for the
running flag. Or other ways to prevent a race condition. So yes, we can
assume this.
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