Rhodri> Just do the locking properly and worry about optimisations Rhodri> later.
The locking is already done properly (assuming we are discussing CPython's reference counting). Now is later. People are thinking about lots of optimizations, this is just one of them. -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://smontanaro.dyndns.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list