[C++-sig] boost and threads

[Niall Douglas]

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On 23 Jul 2004 at 13:11, Peter Bradshaw wrote:

> An app where embedded python scripts control a number of C++ analysis
> functions that are run over a bunch of mp3's. The idea is that each
> thread would do a PyRunSimpleString or similar to run a python
> function that controls and organises the analysis of an mp3. The
> dispatch/organisation of mp3 selection could be handled in a thread
> safe manner in C++.
> 
> Q:
> I'm aware that there's probably some Python/C API stuff I have to
> learn/implement, but I'm curious if boost::python will play nicely in
> this situation. That is, if different objects of the same wrapped
> class being accessed from diffferent threads will I have issues?

So long as you are holding the python GIL when you call boost.python, 
everything should be fine. Of course, all time spent inside python 
and any code of yours python calls will be single threaded due to the 
mutex.

Cheers,
Niall





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