On May 20, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Forcing developers to choose between the speed of the INCREF/DECREF
macros and the proposed ABI compatibility mode for the benefit of an
as
yet hypothetical GIL-less CPython API implementation seems more like a
way to kill adoption of the ABI compatibility mode rather than a way
to
encourage the use of the IncRef/Decref functions.
Indeed, and if the promise of "no-ABI-breakages-till-4.0" is removed,
this would be a non-issue. Keep Py_INCREF macros in the current ABI,
and then break the ABI when someone wants to remove the GIL someday.
That's certainly going to be a big enough change to justify changing
the ABI.
James
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