On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 08:21:31 +0100 Ronald Oussoren via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > Some past attempts at getting rid of the GIL used atomic inc/dec, and that > resulted in bad performance because these instructions aren’t cheap.
Please read in context: we are not talking about making all refcounts atomic, only a couple refcounts on shared objects (which probably won't be Python objects, actually). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
