Re: C replacement for Queue module

2005-10-23 Thread Peter Hansen
Jason Lai wrote: > As far as Queues go, the adding/popping is apparently done with deque > which are implemented in C. The Queue class pretty much just provides > blocking operations and is otherwise a very thin layer around deque. As > far as primitives go, only threading.Lock is written in C and

Re: C replacement for Queue module

2005-10-22 Thread Jason Lai
As far as Queues go, the adding/popping is apparently done with deque which are implemented in C. The Queue class pretty much just provides blocking operations and is otherwise a very thin layer around deque. As far as primitives go, only threading.Lock is written in C and the others are pure Pytho

Re: C replacement for Queue module

2005-10-22 Thread Peter Hansen
Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I'm working on an application that makes heavy use of Queue objects in > a multithreaded environment. > > By "heavy" I mean "millions of calls to put and get, constituting ~20% > of the app's run time." The profiler thinks that a significant amount > of time is spent in th

Re: C replacement for Queue module

2005-10-21 Thread Jonathan Ellis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > does collections.deque have a blocking popleft()? If not, it's not very > suitable to replace Queue.Queue. It does not. -Jonathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: C replacement for Queue module

2005-10-21 Thread jepler
does collections.deque have a blocking popleft()? If not, it's not very suitable to replace Queue.Queue. Jeff pgp9S3BEmciKx.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: C replacement for Queue module

2005-10-21 Thread Jason Lai
How about Python 2.4's collections.deque class? Supposedly it's thread-safe, and it's implemented in C. - Jason -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list