On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 05:35:34PM +0300, Koos Zevenhoven wrote: > > I don't see how the situation benefits from calling something the "main > > interpreter". Subinterpreters can be a way to take something > > non-thread-safe and make it thread-safe, because in an > > interpreter-per-thread scheme, most of the state, like module globals, > are > > thread-local. (Well, this doesn't help for async concurrency, but > anyway.) > > You could have a privileged C extension that is only imported in the main > interpreter: > > > if get_current_interp() is main_interp(): > from _decimal import * > else: > from _pydecimal import * > > > Or it could be first-come first-served: if is_imported_by_other_process("_decimal"): from _pydecimal import * else from _decimal import * ––Koos -- + Koos Zevenhoven + http://twitter.com/k7hoven +
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