[Python-Dev] PEP 554 v3 (new interpreters module) (original) (raw)

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 22:20:09 EDT 2017

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

It's fairly reasonable to implement a mutex using a CSP-style unbuffered channel (send = acquire, receive = release). And the same trick turns a channel with a fixed-size buffer into a bounded semaphore. It won't be as efficient as a modern specialized mutex implementation, of course, but it's workable.

Unfortunately while technically you can construct a buffered channel out of an unbuffered channel, the construction's pretty unreasonable (it needs two dedicated threads per channel).

Yeah, if threading's synchronization primitives make sense between interpreters then we'll add direct support. Using channels for that isn't a good option.

-eric

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