On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
On 28/07/10 23:12, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
It should be noted, though, that a full GC can be detrimental to
real-time applications. Kristján has already explained how some of his
software disabled the cyclic GC, and
On 28/07/2010 11:50, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Ronald Oussoren
ronaldousso...@mac.com wrote:
In my opinion the GIL is a weak point of CPython and it would be nice if it
could be fixed. That is however easier said than done, a number of people
have tried in the
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:56:16 +0100
Michael Foord fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk wrote:
This is the kind of approach that seems to hold the most promise of
removing the GIL without incurring the single-threaded performance hit
that has been the achilles heel of previous attempts at creating a
On 28 Jul, 2010,at 12:56 PM, Michael Foord fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk wrote:On 28/07/2010 11:50, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Ronald Oussoren
ronaldousso...@mac.com wrote:
In my opinion the GIL is a weak point of CPython and it would be nice if it
could be fixed.
On 28/07/2010 12:43, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
On 28 Jul, 2010,at 12:56 PM, Michael Foord fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk
wrote:
On 28/07/2010 11:50, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Ronald Oussoren
ronaldousso...@mac.com wrote:
In my opinion the GIL is a weak point of
On 28/07/10 23:12, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
It should be noted, though, that a full GC can be detrimental to
real-time applications. Kristján has already explained how some of his
software disabled the cyclic GC, and took care of breaking cycles
manually instead.
This worries me, too. I'd be
