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python-safethread is a large modification of CPython intended to provide safe, easy, and scalable concurrency mechanisms. It focuses on local concurrency, not distributed or parallel programs.

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Note: As an implementation, python-safethread is dead. It is not worth the effort to continue rewriting CPython to have a true tracing GC.

However, the semantics presented are still viable and I intend to reuse them in future projects.
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Some major features:

    * Exceptions from threads propagate naturally and cause the program to shut down gracefully.
    * No memory model is necessary. All mutable objects are safely contained with monitors (similar to Concurrent Pascal's monitors, but different from Java's monitors), or otherwise provide explicit semantics.
    * Deadlocks are detected and broken automatically.
    * Finalization is thread-safe (and uses a much simpler mechanism at a low-level.)
    * Most existing single-threaded code will continue to be correct (and in good style) when used amongst threads. Some boilerplate may be necessary to share module and class objects between threads.
    * The GIL is removed. Each additional thread should run at or near 100% throughput. However, the base (single-threaded) throughput is only around 60-65% that of normal CPython, so you'll need several threads for this to be worthwhile.

What little documentation there is exists at http://code.google.com/p/python-safethread/w/list

Discussion may be done on the mailing list, http://groups.google.com/group/python-safethread, as well as in irc://irc.freenode.net/python-safethread. Or if you prefer, you may contact me directly at mailto:rhamph@gmail.com

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Maintainer:
Adam Olsen
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Licence:
Apache Licence, Python Licence

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