Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > Maybe the state of this discussion is my fault for not being clear > enough. Let's abandon terms such as "broken" and "roundrobin." CS > theory has the perfectly useful terms "fair" and "unfair." The fact > of the matter is this: the pthread GIL (implemented as LEGACY gil) is > an "unfair" syncronization primitve.
That's not really true. The Linux condition variable (from glibc linuxthreads), for example, implements "fair" synchronization. Other implementations may do the same. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8299> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
