Oct. 21, 2009
4:09 a.m.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 18:22, Sturla Molden <sturla@molden.no> wrote:
Adam Olsen skrev:
This'd show you the minimum amount of overhead, but only for a trivial case: single threaded.
As far as I know, the single-threaded case is the reason for keeping the GIL.
No, single-threaded is the reason for keeping the GIL *as an option*. The complete lack of any other viable option (in CPython) is the reason it's the only option. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus