Atomic operations (was Re: [Python-Dev] Why did Fredrik leave the party?) (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon bac@OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:08:46 -0800 (PST)

[Barry A. Warsaw]

Brett (I think) suggested that there may be alternatives to a syntactic approach, e.g. one that prohibits thread switching between the resource acquisition and the entering of the try. That might be interesting to explore, but I worry about deadlock possibilities.

Yes, I suggested this, but at an improper time. I had forgotten Guido had asked that new ideas that tied into the syntax proposals not be brought up until summaries of the old ideas were done. My bad. =)

Anyway, so I am going to read the paper that Jeremy posted the link to, but I am going to ask that we save discussing this until we get those summaries (or discuss it off-list if anyone cares to). Maybe this will motivate me to come up with some half-assed summary just to have one done and force people to clean them up if they care about the proposal. =)

-Brett