Problems with gencache on Windows NT

[Mark Hammond]

Geoff Talvola wrote:

> Well, I spoke too soon.  It turns out that I need to wrap both 
> EnsureModule AND EnsureDispatch with locks in order to solve my 
> problem.  I still get errors otherwise.


OK - this needs to be fixed.

> On a related note, I've noticed that EnsureDispatch seems to _always_ 
> call EnsureModule, which makes it quite a bit slower than Dispatch 
> (although it's still plenty fast).  I wonder if this is a bug in 
> EnsureDispatch -- it looks like it was intended to only call 
> EnsureModule the first time through.  Probably only Mark can answer 
> that.  I'm using win32all 136 with Python 1.5.2 in case it matters.


Hrm.  It is supposed to only call it once.  I will check that out too.

Mark.