Martin v. Löwis wrote: > No: fairness in mutex synchronization means that every waiter for the > mutex will eventually acquire it; it won't happen that one thread > starves waiting for the mutex. This is something that the mutex needs to > provide, not the application.
CriticalSections are first come first served on Windows, just like a regular mutex. As Phillip already noted, their main limitation is that they don't work cross-process (of course, that's also where they get their extra speed). Since we don't need the cross-process feature and we don't support Win 9x any more, this is certainly an idea worth looking at. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
