[Chicago] Kickstarter Fund to get rid of the GIL

[Brian Herman]

Kickstarter funds other projects other than art.


Arigatou gozaimasu,
(Thank you very much)
Brian Herman

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brianherman at acm.org








On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Jul 23, 2011 1:52 AM, "Brian Herman" <brianherman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Do you guys think it would be a good idea to make a kickstarter fund to
>> pay David Beasley to get rid of the global interpreter lock?
>>
>> No.
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> Likewise, no.  For the simple reasons that a) I don't think Dave has a
> plan, and b) I don't think anyone will ever come up with a plan that
> satisfies all the necessary constraints for CPython (single threaded
> performance, C-extension compatibility, true free threading, API
> compatibility).
>
> However, I do know someone with a plan to kill the GIL, Armin Rigo:
> http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/06/global-interpreter-lock-or-how-to-kill.html and
> it's very likely that he/we (the PyPy guys) will be posting some sort of
> crowd-funded proposal for his work on this, since ChiPy seems to be
> interested I'll try to follow up as there's more information.
>
> Alex
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