Thread safetyness in Python

Gerhard Haering gerhard.haering at gmx.de
Wed Jul 3 10:12:39 EDT 2002


John Goerzen wrote:
> 1. In C, a++ would be atomic because CPUs have an atomic increment
> operation, in most cases.

What about SMP systems?

Gerhard
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