[Python-Dev] Reworking the GIL

[Antoine Pitrou]

Baptiste Lepilleur <baptiste.lepilleur <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> I've tried, but there is no change in result (the regexp does not use \w &
> co but specify a lot unicode ranges). All strings are already of unicode
> type in 2.6.

No they aren't. You should add "from __future__ import unicode_literals" at the
start of your script and run it again.

> Hmmm, I was confusing with other modules (bzip2 & hashlib?). Looking back at 
> the result of your benchmark it's obvious. Is there a place where the list of 
> functions releasing the GIL is available? I did not see anything in 
> bz2.compress documentation.

No, there isn't. You'd have to test, or read the source code.
But bz2 and zlib, for example, do release the GIL.

Regards

Antoine.