18 Jul
2018
18 Jul
'18
9:30 a.m.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 08:21:31 +0100
Ronald Oussoren via Python-ideas
Some past attempts at getting rid of the GIL used atomic inc/dec, and that resulted in bad performance because these instructions aren’t cheap.
Please read in context: we are not talking about making all refcounts atomic, only a couple refcounts on shared objects (which probably won't be Python objects, actually). Regards Antoine.