On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 10:47 PM, A. Jesse Jiryu Davis <je...@emptysquare.net> wrote: > Ned merged my patches, so Python 3.6 and the next releases of Python 2.7 and > 3.5 won't lock around getaddrinfo on Mac 10.5+.
Great! > getaddrinfo is also thread-safe on recent NetBSD 4 and OpenBSD 5.4+. I plan > to submit similar version checks for them. (FreeBSD already has the proper > version check.) That's also great to hear. Determination! > In other words the lock is about to be removed on all modern platforms. > Should we revert this asyncio change? It's a complex solution to a problem > that's going away. Humm... Do you for sure that getaddrinfo() can parse numeric IP addresses (of all flavors) faster than the Python code you wrote, barring the lock? If that's so I agree. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
