New submission from Antoine Pitrou: It should be possible to optimize threading.Event.wait() to not acquire the condition when the event is already set. Patch attached.
Without patch: $ ./python -m timeit -s "import threading; e = threading.Event(); e.set()" "e.wait()" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.466 usec per loop With patch: $ ./python -m timeit -s "import threading; e = threading.Event(); e.set()" "e.wait()" 10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.19 usec per loop ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: event_wait.patch keywords: patch messages: 183811 nosy: neologix, pitrou, sbt priority: normal severity: normal stage: patch review status: open title: Optimize Event.wait() type: performance versions: Python 3.4 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29355/event_wait.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17389> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
