Martin Devera wrote: > As I've written in "Big reader lock" paragraph of the original proposal, these > objects could be handled by not blocking in read path
But as was just pointed out, because of refcounting, there's really no such thing as read-only access to an object. What *looks* like read-only access at the Python level involves refcount updates just from the act of touching the object. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
