[cctbxbb] Should we enable boost threads in bootstrap?

[Billy Poon]

Hi Luc,

I'm not sure. It was requested and I'm not familiar enough with Python
threading. Is this something the data processing folks need? Or is
threading in the C++ layer sufficient?

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On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Luc Bourhis <luc_j_bourhis at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi Billy,
>
> On 26 Sep 2017, at 17:11, Billy Poon <BKPoon at lbl.gov> wrote:
>
> I just chatted with Tristan Croll from Cambridge at the Phenix developer
> workshop. Would the Global Interpreter Lock be an issue?
>
> https://docs.python.org/2.7/c-api/init.html#thread-state-
> and-the-global-interpreter-lock
>
> It sounds like we should be releasing the lock before doing any threading
> and then reacquiring the lock afterwards.
>
>
> So that means you plan your threaded code to call back into Python, then?
> This would be quite unusual in the context of the cctbx but I haven’t
> followed development closely for a long while, so I might have missed
> something.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Luc
>
>
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