Paul Rubin wrote: > Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes: >> 3. If you are going to use the low-level API on a mutable object, or >> are going to access the object structure directly, you need to acquire >> the object's mutex. Macros such as Py_LOCK(), Py_LOCK2(), Py_UNLOCK() >> would be provided. > > You mean every time you access a list or dictionary or class instance, > you have to acquire a mutex? That sounds like a horrible slowdown.
Indeed it would, but hey, let's not let that stop us repeating the thinking that's gone into CPython over the last fifteen years. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
