Are push and pop operations for arrays atomic?
Can i safely run
i = array.pop
...
array.push(i)
in GIL-threaded env?
Are push and pop operations for arrays atomic? Can i safely run i =
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Are push and pop operations for arrays atomic?
Can i safely run
i = array.pop
...
array.push(i)
in GIL-threaded env?
You can look in the c code (array.c)
if it calls any ruby method calls (rb_funcall) then it’s not thread safe, I believe. Otherwise it should be…
You could easily override #pop et al and make them have their own synchronization.