Asynchronous Messaging

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:43:32 -0300, wink <wink at saville.com> escribi�:

> You are most correct, but Queue is slow compared to deque but
> not for the reason I guessed. Apparently it's because deque is
> implemented in C while Queue is in python. Using the program below
> it looks there is about a 35:1 speed difference.

That't not the reason. A Queue is built around a container, and it happens  
to be a deque in the default implementation. But the important thing is  
that a Queue is a synchronized object - it performs the necesary  
synchronization to ensure proper operation even from multiple threads  
attempting to use it at the same time.
So your comparison is meaningless, apart from telling that using mutexes  
is not cheap.

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Gabriel Genellina