On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > It's fairly reasonable to implement a mutex using a CSP-style > unbuffered channel (send = acquire, receive = release). And the same > trick turns a channel with a fixed-size buffer into a bounded > semaphore. It won't be as efficient as a modern specialized mutex > implementation, of course, but it's workable. > > Unfortunately while technically you can construct a buffered channel > out of an unbuffered channel, the construction's pretty unreasonable > (it needs two dedicated threads per channel).
Yeah, if threading's synchronization primitives make sense between interpreters then we'll add direct support. Using channels for that isn't a good option. -eric _______________________________________________ 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
