Bryan Olson <fakeaddr...@nowhere.org> writes: > An object's __dict__ slot is *not* mutable; thus we could gain some > efficiency by protecting the object and its dict with the same lock. I > do not see a major win in Mr. Banks' point that we do not need to lock > the object, just its dict.
If the dict contents don't change often, maybe we could use an STM-like approach to eliminate locks when reading. That would of course require rework to just about every C function that accesses Python objects. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
