Re: [python-uk] One of our own as an inspiring woman in tech...

2017-07-13 Thread Richard Taylor
She has got my vote! Richard On 13 July 2017 at 19:19, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > Hi Folks, > > You may not realise, but our very own Carrie Anne Philbin has been > nominated for this year's award as an inspiring woman in tech. We all > know she's an inspiring woman in tech *anyway* but if

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Minimalistic software transactional memory

2007-12-20 Thread Richard Taylor
Mike On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Michael Sparks wrote: > The thing here all of these functions have in common is they are all > read-write on the state (eg creating non-pre-existing vars). So rather than > having separate read & write locks, I've decided on a single lock for > read-write. That

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Minimalistic software transactional memory

2007-12-12 Thread Richard Taylor
Mike On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Michael Sparks wrote: > Hi Richard, > > > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 13:36, Richard Taylor wrote: > > I don't think that you can rely on the threadsafety of these functions. > > Even if they are threadsafe in C Python (whic

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] Minimalistic software transactional memory

2007-12-11 Thread Richard Taylor
Mike I don't think that you can rely on the threadsafety of these functions. Even if they are threadsafe in C Python (which I doubt that 'set' is), the locking in Jython in more fine grained and would likely catch you out. I would suggest that you should routinely wrap shared datamodels like th