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diff --git a/libraries/toro/README b/libraries/toro/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..30171098ec --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/toro/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +With Tornado’s gen module, you can turn Python generators into full-featured +coroutines, but coordination among these coroutines is difficult without +mutexes, semaphores, and queues. + +Toro provides to Tornado coroutines a set of locking primitives and queues +analogous to those that Gevent provides to Greenlets, or that the standard +library provides to threads. + +(Note that these primitives and queues are not actually thread-safe and +cannot be used in place of those from the standard library–they are meant to +coordinate Tornado coroutines in single-threaded apps, not to protect shared +objects in multithreaded apps.) |