[Chicago] Kickstarter Fund to get rid of the GIL

Joshua Herman zitterbewegung at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 14:13:30 CEST 2011


I think its a good idea to do this. There are enough python users to fund it.

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 6:41 AM, David Beazley <d-beazley at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I'd just like to say that if I had any clue how to eliminate the GIL short of rewriting python from scratch, I would have told people about it already.  Besides, my main interest is simply to have a sane GIL, which although not ideal, is better than having a broken GIL.
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> If you must know,  the mere presence of the GIL doesn't bother me too much though.
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> - Dave
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