Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Is a 60% performance increase for the common case of acquiring an > uncontested lock worth doing?
Yes, I agree it is. However, the Vista-specific path seems uninteresting, if it's really 2% faster. > our console profilers were alarmed at all the kernel transitions caused > by the GIL being ticked.... That's the old GIL. The new GIL uses a fixed timeout with a condition variable. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11618> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com