Is there a more efficient threading lock?

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2023-02-25 09:52:15 -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> BLOB_LOCK = Lock()
> 
> def get_terms(text):
>     with BLOB_LOCK:
>         phrases = TextBlob(text, np_extractor=EXTRACTOR).noun_phrases
>     for phrase in phrases:
>         yield phrase
> 
> When I monitor the application using py-spy, that with statement is
> consuming huge amounts of CPU.

Another thought:

How accurate is py-spy? Is it possible that it assigns time actually
spent in 
    phrases = TextBlob(text, np_extractor=EXTRACTOR).noun_phrases
to
    with BLOB_LOCK:
?

        hp

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