"Andre Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While I understand the difficulties in removing the GIL and the
> potential negative effect on single-threaded applications I would
> very much encourage discussion to seriously consider removing the
> GIL (maybe optionally) in Py3k.
I suppose this would require either fundamentally changing the garbage
collection algorithm (lots of work and breaking all C extensions),
or accompanying all reference count adjustments with memory barriers
(a significant performance hit even if a particular object is not
shared between threads; many objects like None will be shared anyway).
--
__("< Marcin Kowalczyk
\__/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/
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