I know I already posted some relevant threads to the other discussion, but I wanted to point out a couple of specific comments on GIL fairness from the discussion:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-May/089752.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-May/089755.html - Phillip On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Tres Seaver <tseaver <at> palladion.com> writes: >> >> I read Sturla as saying there were 99,939 switches out of a possible >> 100,000, with sys.checkinterval set to 100. > > Oops, you're right. > But depending on the elapsed time (again :-)), it may be too high, because > too many switches per second will add a lot of overhead and decrease > performance. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/phillip.sitbon%2Bpython-dev%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ 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