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LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 16, 2013
A look at the PyPy 2.0 release
PostgreSQL 9.3 beta: Federated databases and more
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(Nearly) full tickless operation in 3.10
The problem for the accept() system call is that it normally blocks. If you had to acquire a lock, you would end up blocking all other threads.
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