Armin wrote: >So, all this to say: 8 years later, I implemented that on CPython: >https://bitbucket.org/arigo/cpython-withatomic/overview (on the 2.7 >branch). It is sadly a fork of CPython instead of a C extension >module because it needs to access and change a few things in ceval.c. >The total patch is 190 lines, and that's because I need a new type >(very verbose). It implements "thread.atomic", which you use in a >"with" statement. So you write "with atomic:" and you get precisely >the simple case described here: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory#Proposed_language_support. > >Fwiw it's probably also a minimal patch to PyPy. Sorry for being >mostly off-topic for once...
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