circuitpython/tests/thread/thread_qstr1.py
Damien George 2847d7431d tests/thread: Replace busy waiting loops with a loop that sleeps.
Depending on the thread scheduler, a busy-wait loop can hog the CPU and
make the tests very slow.  So convert such loops to loops that have an
explicit sleep, allowing the worker threads to do their job.
2017-02-15 11:12:37 +11:00

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# test concurrent interning of strings
#
# MIT license; Copyright (c) 2016 Damien P. George on behalf of Pycom Ltd
try:
import utime as time
except ImportError:
import time
import _thread
# function to check the interned string
def check(s, val):
assert type(s) == str
assert int(s) == val
# main thread function
def th(base, n):
for i in range(n):
# this will intern the string and check it
exec("check('%u', %u)" % (base + i, base + i))
with lock:
global n_finished
n_finished += 1
lock = _thread.allocate_lock()
n_thread = 4
n_finished = 0
n_qstr_per_thread = 100 # make 1000 for a more stressful test (uses more heap)
# spawn threads
for i in range(n_thread):
_thread.start_new_thread(th, (i * n_qstr_per_thread, n_qstr_per_thread))
# wait for threads to finish
while n_finished < n_thread:
time.sleep(1)
print('pass')