atomic operations in presence of multithreading

Paul Moore pf_moore at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jul 29 15:24:34 EDT 2004


Dave Brueck <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> writes:

> Yep, though I think the OP was mostly concerned with Python's
> internals gettin messed up by unlocked multithreaded access, so he
> doesn't have to be concerned about the above.

I don't think that Python's internals can *ever* be messed up by
unlocked multithreaded access - that's what the GIL is for.

Paul.
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