Critical sections and mutexes

[David Bolen]

<brueckd at tbye.com> writes:

> > If you're able to make assumptions in applications and get away with I
> > certainly won't stop you from writing that way
> 
> Thank goodness! I was worried. :-)

You jest!  :-)

> > But the GIL does nothing for application-specific shared resources.
> > It only protects the interpreter, so that, as you mentioned in another
> > response, a normal Python script can't crash the interpreter.  It does
> > nothing to prevent application-specific data structures from becoming
> > corrupt and affecting the behavior of the application.
> 
> Hey, did you cut and paste that from one of my previous posts? It sounds
> an awful lot like what I was saying. :-)

Drat, and we were doing so well politely disagreeing... :-)

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