[Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!)

[James Y Knight]

On Sep 11, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> We should probably document where all of these globals lists are
> instead of relying on looking for all file level static declarations
> or something.  Or would there be benefit to moving things like this to
> the interpreter struct so that threads within a single interpreter
> call are locked but interpreters can act much more independently?

This would be nice. It would be really nice if python was embeddable  
more like TCL: separate interpreters really are separate, and don't  
share state. That means basically everything has to be stored in an  
interp-specific data structure, not in static variables.

But this has been raised before, and was rejected as not worth the  
amount of work that would be required to achieve it. (it's certainly  
not worth it enough for *me* to do the work, so I can't blame anyone  
else for making the same determination.)

James