Commit 2622b549 authored by Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

#5840: dont claim we dont support TLS.

parent 9bc66825
......@@ -419,10 +419,9 @@ the I/O is waiting for the I/O operation to complete.
The Python interpreter needs to keep some bookkeeping information separate per
thread --- for this it uses a data structure called :ctype:`PyThreadState`.
There's one global variable, however: the pointer to the current
:ctype:`PyThreadState` structure. While most thread packages have a way to
store "per-thread global data," Python's internal platform independent thread
abstraction doesn't support this yet. Therefore, the current thread state must
be manipulated explicitly.
:ctype:`PyThreadState` structure. Before the addition of :dfn:`thread-local
storage` (:dfn:`TLS`) the current thread state had to be manipulated
explicitly.
This is easy enough in most cases. Most code manipulating the global
interpreter lock has the following simple structure::
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