On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 16:07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[email protected]> wrote: >> 3. ?? - I'm sure there are other issues that deserve a look. > > What about fairness? I don't know off-hand whether the GIL is > fair, or whether critical sections are fair, but it needs to be > considered.
FWIW, Win32 CriticalSections are guaranteed to be fair, but they don't guarantee a defined order of wakeup among threads of equal priority. -- Tim Lesher <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
