safethread sound like something interesting. are there already any safthread ideas in pypy? In general, working on GILless ideas sounds more interesting than doing something on multiprocess framworks. It's a master thesis, that means there is room for experimental stuff, but in the end half a year is quite short, so the room is limited again :) was there any attempt to remove the GIL in pypy so far? -- Severin On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Seo Sanghyeon wrote:

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We started to talk about what we could do and what would be interesting for us. In some way we wanted to 'improve multiprocessor capabilities' in

2008/8/27 Severin : pypy.

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We had some ideas so far, but we are not yet fixed on something.

I was wondering if somebody of you has something that is of particular interest to the pypy community. Some ideas that might be interesting to look at for me. Any kind of input or idea is welcome...

A random idea. Implementing python-safethread monitors for PyPy? http://code.google.com/p/python-safethread/wiki/Monitors

-- Seo Sanghyeon

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Severin wrote:

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safethread sound like something interesting. are there already any safthread ideas in pypy? In general, working on GILless ideas sounds more interesting than doing something on multiprocess framworks. It's a master thesis, that means there is room for experimental stuff, but in the end half a year is quite short, so the room is limited again :) was there any attempt to remove the GIL in pypy so far? -- Severin

None that I know of at least. I think any serious GIL-removal proposal requires some deeper thinking about what exactly are the expected semantics.

Oi, how did I miss this thread before... Python-safethread's design of course includes most of this deep thinking. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus