Yury Selivanov <[email protected]> added the comment:
A few thoughts:
1. The merged PR releases GIL for any Python code run in `with
gc.ensure_disabled()`. This is just plain wrong.
2. The merged PR crashes on debug build of CPython.
3. I don't actually understand this feature. Our GC is not per OS thread,
which means that inside `with gc.ensure_disabled()` the GC can become suddenly
**enabled**, if another thread enables it. This API is just misleading (maybe
the name of the new context manager is bad—it cannot ensure anything). There's
even a unittest that tests this!
4. This new API can be trivially implemented in pure Python:
@contextmanager
def disable_gc():
gc.disable()
try:
yield
finally:
gc.enable()
5. While such pure Python version shares the problem discussed in (3), the
currently committed C implementation doesn't fix them either.
IMO this entire issue needs to be properly debated on python-ideas first and
the PR should be reverted from beta-1. If the latter is not possible, OK,
let's revert it for beta-2 and for 3.8.
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