At 10:07 AM 9/11/2007 -0500, Justin Tulloss wrote:
>On 9/11/07, "Martin v. Löwis" ><<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Some global interpreter state/modules are protected (where are these > > globals at?) > >It's the interpreter and thread state itself (pystate.h), for the thread >state, also _PyThreadState_Current. Then there is the GC state, in >particular "generations". There are various caches and counters also. > > >Caches seem like they definitely might be a problem. Would you mind >expanding on this a little? What gets cached and why? It's not just caches and counters. It's also every built-in type structure, builtin module, builtin function... any Python object that's a built-in, period. That includes things like None, True, and False. Caches would include such things as the pre-created integers -100 through 255, the 1-byte character strings for chr(0)-chr(255), and the interned strings cache, to name a few. Most of these things I've mentioned are truly global, and not specific to an individual interpreter. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
