> Yup, in fact, if I hadn't come up with the __read[gf]sword() trick, > my only other option would have been TLS (or the GetCurrentThreadId > /pthread_self() approach in the presentation). TLS is fantastic, > and it's definitely an intrinsic part of the solution (the "Y" part > of "if we're a parallel thread, do Y"), but it definitely more > costly than a simple FS/GS register read.
I think you should be able to just take the address of a static __thread variable to achieve the same thing in a more portable way. _______________________________________________ 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
