Writing a thread-safe class
Timothy Madden
terminatorul at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 09:54:34 EDT 2009
Carl Banks wrote:
[...]
>
> You are not correct. Dictionary operation (like getting and setting
> items) are atomic and limited to one thread at a time, thus thread-
> safe.
>
> (In fact, in CPython only one thread can execute Python code at a
> time, in most cases. This is called the Global Interpreter Lock, or
[...]
I find that hard to believe, but I will look into it.
Thank you,
Timothy Madden
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