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Fri Sep 14 05:55:30 CEST 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-September/074642.html

Jason Orendorff wrote:
> The clever bit is that SpiderMonkey's per-object
> locking does *not* require a context switch or even an atomic
> instruction, in the usual case where an object is *not* shared among
> threads.

How does it tell whether an object is shared between
threads? That sounds like the really clever bit to me.

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