> We are confident that we can surpass CPython's speed with the help of > the JIT. As for free threading, the big prerequisite for that is a GC > that plays well with threads. Boehm is not very good in this respect. > After this is done we can think about how to insert locking operations > in an automatic way to reduce the likelihood of errors (this is > currently already done for releasing the GIL around external function > calls). Then there will probably be a huge amount of painful debugging :-)
I remembered other few remarks to point out: 1) Current pypy in Debian doesn't have modules: thread, ctypes. Thread is needed for py.test, ctypes for plotting facilities in sympy. Ondrej _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
