Dag Sverre Seljebotn, 15.08.2011 11:54:
On 08/15/2011 11:42 AM, mark florisson wrote:
@Cython-dev: Do we merely want to update the docs, or do we want to
initialize the GIL for either case, or only for the with gil
functions? I'm not entirely sure what the overhead is for
single-threaded code, but I'd say we need to initialize it for both
cases.
I'm not sure if I like magic related to having used "with gil" on a
function signature -- it's a bit too magic and obscure.
I don't really like this either. The reason why the GIL is not being
initialised by default is that it has a runtime impact. Just because code
is aware of threading does not mean it is going to be used with threads.
Especially library code (which is a common place for using Cython)
shouldn't impose such an impact on the rest of the runtime.
Stefan
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