[ZODB-Dev] Thread safety

Jeremy Hylton jhylton at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 16:56:04 EDT 2004


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:48:01 -0400, Tim Peters <tim at zope.com> wrote:
> Yes it will!  Collector 1350 is a good recent example of (what turned out in
> part to be) a thread problem, which probably consumed a person-month of
> debugging time in all (including the non-thread bits of it).  And I spent
> much of this weekend tracking down & repairing what turned out to be thread
> bugs in the Python core.  Using threads is plain perilous, compared to not
> using threads.  That's not unique to ZODB or Zope, though.

At least using threads is better than using asycnore.

Jeremy


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