[PATCH 11 of 11] merge: don't fiddle with name lookups or i18n in hot loops

[Isaac Jurado]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Idan Kamara <idankk86 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:02 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Idan Kamara <idankk86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> No, he didn't. And had he given me the chance to reply to his last
>>> response, I would have shown it:
>>
>>
>> Yep, that's a bug. But it's just a bug - I fixed another one in the new
>> parallel code just a little while ago.
>
> So we should exit on all exceptions, but we can't print a traceback
> since that's not desirable when not running from the command line
> (and it wasn't readable anyway since they got interleaved in one
> another).
>
> Maybe we should serialize the exceptions to the master and have
> him decide what to do (e.g. reraise)?

That could be a problem if the serialized exception needs more than
512 bytes in size.  The elegance of Bryan's design relies on the fact
that the operating system ensures atomicity for small writes to the
shared pipe.

-- 
Isaac Jurado

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