[Python-Dev] Threading idea -- exposing a global thread lock (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Tue Mar 14 19:45:11 CET 2006

On 3/14/06, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at verizon.net> wrote:

Once place where we already have CPython specific support is in sys.setcheckinterval(). That suggests adapting that function or adding a new one to temporarily stop switching, almost the same as sys.setcheckinterval(sys.maxint) but continuing to perform other periodic checks for control-break and such.

Don't forget that sys.setcheckinterval() is more of a hint than a requirement. It's easy to wrap sys.setcheckinterval() in a try/except or an if-hasattr, and just ignore the case where it doesn't exist ('it won't be necessary'). Doing the same thing with a 'critical section' would be a lot harder. I would also assume a 'critical section' should not allow threads in extension modules, even if they explicitly allow threads. That's quite a bit different from making the check-interval infinitely high for the duration of the block.

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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