Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment: > Compare-and-exchange is sufficient for avoiding the GIL contention > I describe above.
If Python objects are involved, it is more complicated than you suggest. Possibly, multiprocessing can offer a shared counter that creates integer objects on demand and that offers guaranteed atomic increments and decrements (as semaphores) do. > one of the nice things about multiprocessing is avoiding > GIL-introduced latency! The primary way it achieves this benefit is by avoiding shared state altogether. ---------- nosy: +davin, pitrou, rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31654> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
