On 2018-07-08 14:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 08 Jul 2018 14:11:58 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
[snip]
More importantly, this loop may never finish:
# Initially
quit = False
# Thread 1
global quit
while not quit:
time.sleep(1)
# Thread 2
global quit
quit = True
Assuming that thread 2 actually runs *at some point*, I don't see how
that can't terminate. Neither thread sets quit to False, so provided
thread 2 runs at all, it has to terminate.
[snip]
The compiler could look at the code for thread 1 and see that 'quit' is
never assigned to, meaning that it could be "optimised" to:
global quit
if not quit:
while True:
time.sleep(1)
In C you'd declare 'quit' as 'volatile' to tell the compiler that it
could change unexpectedly, so don't make that assumption.
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