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| author | Dimitris Zlatanidis <d.zlatanidis@gmail.com> | 2014-01-24 16:18:52 +0700 |
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| committer | Erik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org> | 2014-01-29 23:21:12 -0600 |
| commit | 829ba2d88fb64fa72aee750b8d28590633f95ad7 (patch) | |
| tree | d7f0f11a254a03e90c69360cc702eb24f10d60c2 /libraries/toro/README | |
| parent | 8c558a59b517e4700d9f60f267a02a19f8745e63 (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-829ba2d88fb64fa72aee750b8d28590633f95ad7.tar.xz | |
libraries/toro: Added (Synchronization primitives).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/libraries/toro/README b/libraries/toro/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..30171098ec6b --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/toro/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +With Tornado’s gen module, you can turn Python generators into full-featured +coroutines, but coordination among these coroutines is difficult without +mutexes, semaphores, and queues. + +Toro provides to Tornado coroutines a set of locking primitives and queues +analogous to those that Gevent provides to Greenlets, or that the standard +library provides to threads. + +(Note that these primitives and queues are not actually thread-safe and +cannot be used in place of those from the standard library–they are meant to +coordinate Tornado coroutines in single-threaded apps, not to protect shared +objects in multithreaded apps.) |