Re:Map.merge() – One method to rule them all
by ben-schaaf on Sunday March 31, 2019 @11:27AM
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If you mean lock-free as in no GIL, you obviously can't. But otherwise all python code is inherently thread safe.
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Re:Map.merge() – One method to rule them all
by meddlepal on Sunday March 31, 2019 @11:41AM
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Yea I meant lock free and ready for multi-threaded use without a GIL. I didn't mean to dump on Python either, I write a lot of Python and Java but comparisons like yours aren't really fair because the JVM is just considerably more powerful than Python's runtime. I could take a huge list of words, hand subsets to threads and let them all update the same map using the same API and without needing a lock.