I did see this, I'm not convinced it's only relevant to PyPy.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > 2011/11/30 Matt Joiner <anacro...@gmail.com>: >> Given GCC's announcement that Intel's STM will be an extension for C >> and C++ in GCC 4.7, what does this mean for Python, and the GIL? >> >> I've seen efforts made to make STM available as a context, and for use >> in user code. I've also read about the "old attempts way back" that >> attempted to use finer grain locking. The understandably failed due to >> the heavy costs involved in both the locking mechanisms used, and the >> overhead of a reference counting garbage collection system. >> >> However given advances in locking and garbage collection in the last >> decade, what attempts have been made recently to try these new ideas >> out? In particular, how unlikely is it that all the thread safe >> primitives, global contexts, and reference counting functions be made >> __transaction_atomic, and magical parallelism performance boosts >> ensue? > > Have you seen > http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/we-need-software-transactional-memory.html > ? > > > -- > Regards, > Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
