[Twisted-Python] Some suggestions

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Itamar wrote:

> My main concern is *safety*. For example, I'm pretty sure making 
> connectionLose() synchronized is not enough to make it thread safe. 

Why not? If it's synchronized, and doWrite is synchronized, then I can't
figure out what the safety issue is.  Did you try, and experience some, or
do you know of some potential ones from reading it?

> Speed is good of course - and notice that synchronizing stuff slows
> down any non-threaded protocols I may be using along with my threaded
> one.

Yes.  Actually the simple statement 'import thread' will slow down
everything that your application does by approximately 5-20% (depending on
OS and #of CPUs mainly), even if you never start a thread.  That's why
there's all of that careful dancing around import statements when you look
at modules like threadable ;)

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