On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 4:11 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > On 21/04/20 8:34 pm, Ronald Oussoren via Python-Dev wrote: > > As far as I understand proper support for subinterpreters also requires > > moving away from static type definition to avoid sharing objects > between > > interpreters (that is, use the PyType_FromSpec to build types). > > Which means updating every extension module that defines its > own Python types and was written before PyType_FromSpec existed. > I expect there is a huge number of those.
Correct. Before we make the GIL per-interpreter, we will need to find a solution for things like static types which minimizes the impact on extension authors. Note that PyType_FromSpec does not have to be involved. It is part of the Stable ABI effort in PEP 384, though it does help with subinterpreters. I expect there are other solutions which will not involve as much churn, though I know folks who would want everyone to use heap types regardless. :) -eric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/6PWGTPZIFSHVACVTZ6YFA7MYY7L22G4O/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
