
April 14, 2016
10:13 p.m.
2016-04-14 23:29 GMT+02:00 Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>:
I can see why you might want a global version number, but not doing so would eliminate an implicit reliance on the GIL, or in a GIL-less implementation <wink> a lock around incrementing the global version number.
It's not like the builtin dict type is going to become GIL-free... So I think that it's ok to use a global version. A very few know that, but the GIL has some advantages sometimes... Victor