[Python-Dev] Threading and callbacks - missing documentation (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller thomas.heller@ion-tof.com
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:30:00 +0200

From: "Tim Peters" <tim.one@comcast.net>

[Thomas Heller] > ... > Maybe the PyBEGINALLOWTHREADS and PyENDALLOWTHREADS macros > could be changed to store the threadstate in a global TLS area for > Windows and pthreads platforms?

The Thread-SIG knew what needed to be done, but nobody had time to do it. The only difference now is that nobody remembers what needs to be done, and it would consume so much time to reconstruct all the subtleties that-- once again --nobody would be left with enough time to do it .

Time aside, I know that I'm not qualified to implement it, but I would surely be qualified to use it .

Thomas