Writing a thread-safe class

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So what's recommended way for multicore machines?
Threads will probably only accelerate if the used C libraries are
releasing the GIL, right?

What's for example about PIL (Python Imaging library)?



Assuming, that the C library calls don't releas the GIL


Shoud I directly use use fork() and some kind of IPC? or are there some
special well established, recommendable commodity modules aiming for
rmultiprocessor job distribution?

So far I have just a single-core machine, but I'll be using a multicore
machine in the next weeks.

Then I'll probably find out

bye

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sturlamolden wrote:
> On 12 Sep, 15:54, Timothy Madden <terminato... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I find that hard to believe, but I will look into it.
> 
> Carl Banks is correct.
> 
> There is a mutex called "the global interpreter lock" that takes care
> of this. You can have multiple threads running, but access to the
> Python interpreter is serialized.
> 
> 
>