Re:Grumpy: Go running Python
by beagle3 on Thursday January 05, 2017 @01:10AM
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(assuming mylist is a standard python list) it does prevent races inside mylist.append. It does make mylist.append safe.
When I wrote "append from two threads .. as expected" I meant "two items will be added, which one first is unspecified", and the GIL certainly takes care of that.
I agree it does not protect you from your bad threaded code - but then, nothing short of STM does (and even STM doesn't guarantee starvation in the general sense - nothing can).
When I wrote "append from two threads .. as expected" I meant "two items will be added, which one first is unspecified", and the GIL certainly takes care of that.
I agree it does not protect you from your bad threaded code - but then, nothing short of STM does (and even STM doesn't guarantee starvation in the general sense - nothing can).