Hi Nathan,

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Nathan Hurst <n...@njhurst.com> wrote:
> why does python and pypy do this?  Is it part of the GIL problem?
> will STM fix it?

PyPy does this because Python does it.  It is not part of any other
problem, just that thread.join() uses lock.acquire(), which cannot be
interrupted in Python 2.x.  This has been changed in some version of
Python 3.x.


A bientôt,

Armin.
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