Add locks to make the caches well behaved in multi-threaded code.

Store builtins in cell variables to speed-up the common path,
reducing the chance of a lock needing to block at all.

Lib/functools.py

@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ from _functools import partial, reduce
 from collections import OrderedDict, Counter
 from heapq import nsmallest
 from operator import itemgetter
+try:
+    from _thread import allocate_lock as Lock
+except:
+    from _dummy_thread import allocate_lock as Lock
 
 # update_wrapper() and wraps() are tools to help write
 # wrapper functions that can handle naive introspection
@@ -115,22 +119,26 @@ def lfu_cache(maxsize=100):
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_algorithms#Least-Frequently_Used
 
     """
-    def decorating_function(user_function):
+    def decorating_function(user_function, tuple=tuple, sorted=sorted, len=len):
         cache = {}                      # mapping of args to results
         use_count = Counter()           # times each key has been accessed
         kwd_mark = object()             # separate positional and keyword args
+        lock = Lock()
 
         @wraps(user_function)
         def wrapper(*args, **kwds):
             key = args
             if kwds:
                 key += (kwd_mark,) + tuple(sorted(kwds.items()))
-            use_count[key] += 1         # count a use of this key
             try:
+                with lock:
+                    use_count[key] += 1         # count a use of this key
                     result = cache[key]
                     wrapper.hits += 1
             except KeyError:
                 result = user_function(*args, **kwds)
+                with lock:
+                    use_count[key] += 1         # count a use of this key
                     cache[key] = result
                     wrapper.misses += 1
                     if len(cache) > maxsize:
@@ -143,6 +151,7 @@ def lfu_cache(maxsize=100):
 
         def clear():
             """Clear the cache and cache statistics"""
+            with lock:
                 cache.clear()
                 use_count.clear()
                 wrapper.hits = wrapper.misses = 0
@@ -161,9 +170,10 @@ def lru_cache(maxsize=100):
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_algorithms#Least_Recently_Used
 
     """
-    def decorating_function(user_function):
+    def decorating_function(user_function, tuple=tuple, sorted=sorted, len=len):
         cache = OrderedDict()           # ordered least recent to most recent
         kwd_mark = object()             # separate positional and keyword args
+        lock = Lock()
 
         @wraps(user_function)
         def wrapper(*args, **kwds):
@@ -171,18 +181,23 @@ def lru_cache(maxsize=100):
             if kwds:
                 key += (kwd_mark,) + tuple(sorted(kwds.items()))
             try:
-                result = cache.pop(key)
+                with lock:
+                    result = cache[key]
+                    del cache[key]
+                    cache[key] = result         # record recent use of this key
                     wrapper.hits += 1
             except KeyError:
                 result = user_function(*args, **kwds)
-                wrapper.misses += 1
-                if len(cache) >= maxsize:
-                    cache.popitem(0)    # purge least recently used cache entry
+                with lock:
                     cache[key] = result         # record recent use of this key
+                    wrapper.misses += 1
+                    if len(cache) > maxsize:
+                        cache.popitem(0)        # purge least recently used cache entry
             return result
 
         def clear():
             """Clear the cache and cache statistics"""
+            with lock:
                 cache.clear()
                 wrapper.hits = wrapper.misses = 0