On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 17:50:33 +0200 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 21:31:30 -0400 Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> wrote:
By contrast, if we allow an actual bytes object to be shared, then either every INCREF or DECREF on that bytes object becomes a synchronisation point, or else we end up needing some kind of secondary per-interpreter refcount where the interpreter doesn't drop its shared reference to the original object in its source interpreter until the internal refcount in the borrowing interpreter drops to zero.
There shouldn't be a need to synchronize on INCREF. If both interpreters have at least 1 reference then either one adding a reference shouldn't be a problem.
I'm not sure what Nick meant by "synchronization point", but at least you certainly need INCREF and DECREF to be atomic, which is a departure from today's Py_INCREF / Py_DECREF behaviour (and is significantly slower, even on high-level benchmarks).
To be clear, I'm writing this under the hypothesis of per-interpreter GILs. I'm not really interested in the per-process GIL case :-) Regards Antoine.