Christian Heimes added the comment: A RW lock is part of POSIX threads [1]. It's usually a good idea to either use POSIX functions or to mimic their behavior. After all POSIX is an industry standard.
Boost and Java have several lock and rw lock implementations. Wikipedia [2] is a good starting point for the various implementations. The page also mentions a seqlock which looks interesting to me as it's fast for few writers with lots of readers. [1] http://linux.die.net/man/3/pthread_rwlock_init [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readers%E2%80%93writer_lock ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8800> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
