Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> writes: > The GIL isn't going away from PyPy any time real soon, alas.
I thought the GIL's main purpose was to avoid having to lock all the CPython refcount updates, so if PyPy has tracing GC, why is there still a GIL? And how is TM going to help with parallelism if the GIL is still there? > Armin has some pretty cool ideas about what to do about contention, > but if you want to hear them, its better if you go post that to > pypy-...@python.org... Or ask away on the #pypy channel on freenode It would be nice if he blogged something about them. > But this reminds me that I have to get Lennart Augustsson and Armin > Rigo in the same room some time. Should be fun. I thought the STM stuff in GHC was done by the Simon's. Armin should certainly have Simon Marlow's book about concurrency and Haskell: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929/index.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
