2016-01-21 1:08 GMT+01:00 Brett Cannon <br...@python.org>: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 at 15:46 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> >> The worst case is when a value different than the watched value is >> modified between each guard check. In this case, we always need a dict >> lookup. An heuristic can be chosen to decide to give up after N tries. >> Currently, fat.GuardDict always retries. > > Does "retries" mean "check if the value really changed, and if it hasn't > then just update the version ID the guard checks"?
If the dict version changes (because a value different than the watched value is modified) each time that the guard is checked, the guard always require a dict lookup to check if the watched value changed. Victor _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
