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-rw-r--r--tests/thread/stress_create.py22
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diff --git a/tests/thread/stress_create.py b/tests/thread/stress_create.py
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+# stress test for creating many threads
+
+try:
+ import utime as time
+except ImportError:
+ import time
+import _thread
+
+def thread_entry(n):
+ pass
+
+thread_num = 0
+while thread_num < 500:
+ try:
+ _thread.start_new_thread(thread_entry, (thread_num,))
+ thread_num += 1
+ except MemoryError:
+ pass
+
+# wait for the last threads to terminate
+time.sleep(1)
+print('done')