Hi Folks:
I recently started looking at Mozilla's new language Rust and its channel
implementation. A little challenging since Rust is written in Rust. Unlike Go,
I think Rust's model is very very different from Stackless Python. Still
something that piqued my interest was that Rust's implementation uses lock free
queues.
It would be interesting to benchmark Rust and Go's channel performance ....
Last year, I wanted to experiment with lock free queues with PyPy using parts
of its STM API. This way I wouldn't have to worry about a GIL getting in the
way.
I thought perhaps it would be easier to experiment with C Based Stackless
Python instead.
I have a silly question: "what happens if one turns off the GIL"? If one has
two threads that don't explicitly share state, will a Python programme still
function properly? Or are there other things happening under the hood?
Cheers,
Andrew
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