Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > Thread 1 and Thread 2 use a pair of queues to communicate. T1 sends > work to T2 using Q1, and T2 sends back results using Q2. > > T1 pushes Item1 onto Q1, and waits for Result1 to come back on Q2. > > T2 reads Item1 from its end of Q1, and waits to read Item2, which it > needs to compute Result1. > > Sounds like a deadlock to me.
As it turns out, if you try hard enough, you can always construct a race condition, deadlock or a livelock. If you need to guard against it, there is paradigms like BSP, but not everything fits in. a BSP design. Sturla -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
