[Python-ideas] Exploiting type-homogeneity in list.sort() (again!)

[Jelle Zijlstra]

2017-03-05 22:08 GMT-08:00 Elliot Gorokhovsky <elliot.gorokhovsky at gmail.com>:
> Another solution: check if there is more than one thread; if there is, then
> disable optimization. Is sorting in multithreaded programs common enough to
> warrant adding the complexity to deal with it?
>

I think using a global is unsafe even without multithreading, because
the compare function itself could end up doing list.sort() (it's
calling arbitrary Python code after all).

>
> On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 10:52 PM Elliot Gorokhovsky
> <elliot.gorokhovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 10:45 PM Elliot Gorokhovsky
>> <elliot.gorokhovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> the problem is, how can we get a unique identifier for the thread in a
>>> platform-independent way? Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> Oh, I could probably just copy over code from threading.get_ident()... not
>> sure if the key-value table is a good solution, though.
>
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