On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:59:55 +1000 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 6:55 PM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 19:04:35 +1000 > > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 12:34 AM Vinay Sharma via Python-ideas > > > <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > Currently, C++ has support for atomic types, on which operations like > > > > add, sub, xor, etc can be done atomically, thereby avoiding data races. > > > > Having such a support will be very helpful in Python. > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 6:27 PM Vinay Sharma via Python-ideas > > > <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > > > > First of all I am only concerned with synchronization across multiple > > > > processes only, and not threads. Therefore I never mentioned > > > > multi-threading in my original post. > > > > > > > > > > How do C++ atomic types behave across processes? > > > > Since we're merely talking about access memory, the same as > > intra-process. > > > > Are you assuming that the processes have a shared memory segment to > use? If so, that's the underlying mechanic, then. That's what the OP said. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/WONK5GMRMHS33PKRUIRKNNL5X3ESHXCR/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
