Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: ... > 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 likelyhood 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'm actually no longer convinced that it makes soo much sense to get rid of the GIL. Python's data model is not made for free threading. Have you had a look into http://www.parallelpython.com/ ? Might be a starting point into threads with disjoint interpreters and some locking just for data exchange. cheers - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9A : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 30 80 90 57 05 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
