Stefan Behnel, 11.04.2012 15:31:
> Armin Rigo, 11.04.2012 14:51:
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 14:29, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>> Did you do any experiments with running parallel code so far, to see if
>>> that scales as expected?
>>
>> Yes, it scales very nicely on small non-conflicting examples.  I
>> believe that it scales just as nicely on large examples on CPython
>> too, based on the approach --- as long as we, as CPython developers,
>> make enough efforts to adapt a sufficiently large portion of the
>> CPython C code base (which would mean: most mutable built-in objects'
>> implementation).
> 
> Right, that would involve some work. But the advantage, as I understand it,
> is that this can be done incrementally.

Hmm, and according to the papers that are referenced on the PyPy proposal
page, at least some of this work has already been done, it seems.

http://pypy.org/tmdonate.html#why-hasn-t-the-idea-been-implemented-for-cpython-already

Stefan

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