[Python-Dev] Making python C-API thread safe (try 2) (original) (raw)

Brian Quinlan brian at sweetapp.com
Thu Sep 11 12:06:43 EDT 2003

Making the individual interpreters thread safe is trivial, and benefits many people,

I'm not sure that I believe this statement. Isn't this of benefit only to people who want to have multiple interpreter instances running concurrently in an embedding situation? I doubt that there is an army of people who want to do that.

and is a necessary first step; making threads within interpreter thread safe is possible as well, at least if you leave something for the developer, as you should, as you do in every other programming language as well.

Of course it is possible (and would likely be of benefit to more than a handful of Python users). The problem is that it requires effort, would likely require massive code breakage and the locking required would likely significantly decrease Python's single-thread performance.

Cheers, Brian

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