Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> In any case, the amount of disagreement and/or misunderstanding in this
> discussion is a strong hint that it needs a PEP to hash things out and
> explain them clearly, IMHO.
Agreed; a PEP (even if it's just informational) would go a long way in
helping to clear up some mis
Mark Shannon wrote:
> The point I'm making is that adding `tstate` parameters everywhere is
> unnecessary. Using a thread local variable is much less intrusive and is
> at least as capable.
Objectively speaking, what would be the specific difference(s) in behavior
and performance between using a t
> On 17 Mar 2020, at 16:43, Mark Shannon wrote:
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> On 17/03/2020 3:38 pm, Steve Dower wrote:
>> On 17Mar2020 1447, Mark Shannon wrote:
>>> On 16/03/2020 3:04 pm, Victor Stinner wrote:
In short, the answer is yes.
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>>> I said "no" then and gave reasons. AFAICT no one has faulted
Antoine Pitrou [mailto:solip...@pitrou.net]:
> This example is mixing up the notion of interpreter state and thread state.
Sorry about that, I was making a more general point and not paying so much
attention to the specific names.
The general point is this: A thread-local variable can work as an
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:35:16 +
Anders Munch wrote:
> Chris Angelico [mailto:ros...@gmail.com]:
> > And by that logic, globals are even more capable. I don't understand your
> > point. Isn't the purpose of the tstate parameters to avoid the problem of
> > being unable to have multiple tstates w
Chris Angelico [mailto:ros...@gmail.com]:
> And by that logic, globals are even more capable. I don't understand your
> point. Isn't the purpose of the tstate parameters to avoid the problem of
> being unable to have multiple tstates within the same OS thread? I think I've
> missed something here.
On 17/03/2020 7:00 pm, Steve Dower wrote:
On 17Mar2020 1803, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:50 AM Mark Shannon wrote:
The accessibility of a thread-local variable is a strict superset of
that of a function-local variable.
Therefore storing the thread state in a thread-loca
