The lock overhead can be about 3.19 times to 4.40 times slower than not using a lock. In this tutorial you will discover how to calculate lock …
How to Close a Thread in Python
You can close a new thread by returning from run() or raising an exception. In this tutorial you will discover how to close a thread in …
Auto-Start Threads in Python
You can define a new class that extends threading.Thread that automatically starts new threads. In this tutorial you will discover how to …
Thread Starvation in Python
You can starve a thread of execution, which is a concurrency failure mode called thread starvation. In this tutorial you will discover thread …
Advanced Semaphore Examples
You can use a semaphore as a latch, as a mutex and as a thread-safe counter. In this tutorial you will discover advanced usages of the semaphore in …
Thread Stack Size in Python
You can retrieve and change the thread stack size via the threading.stack_size() function. In this tutorial you will discover how to configure the …