Hi,
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 07:06, Matt Joiner wrote:
> I saw this, I believe it just exposes an STM primitive to user code.
> It doesn't make use of STM for Python internals.
That's correct.
> Explicit STM doesn't seem particularly useful for a language that
> doesn't expose raw memory in its n
Am 01.12.2011 07:10, schrieb Raymond Hettinger:
> When updating the documentation, please don't go overboard with warnings.
> The docs need to be worded affirmatively -- say what a tool does and show how
> to
> use it correctly.
> See http://docs.python.org/documenting/style.html#affirmative-tone
Armin, thanks for weighing in on this. I'm keen to see a CPython
making use of STM, maybe I'll give it a try over Christmas break. I'm
willing to take the single threaded performance hit, as I have several
applications that degrade due to significant contention with the GIL.
The other benefits of
