Concurrency Tips & Tricks
Use with statement to manage locks
Starting in Python 2.5, the with statement is a far easier way to manage locks:
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1 some_lock = threading.Lock()
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3 with some_lock:
4 do_stuff_requiring_lock()
This is equivalent to:
Adjust checkinterval
Increasing the check interval may improve performance for CPU-bound multithreaded programs, at the cost of I/O responsiveness.