[concurrency] Inside the Python GIL

[Jeremy McMillan]

I'd like to help test that patch!

On Jun 13, 2009, at 6:30 AM, John Szakmeister wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:27 PM, David Beazley<dave at dabeaz.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>> I agree.   I'd even so far as to say that more people should  
>> probably go
>> pick up an operating systems text and look at it.  In the big  
>> picture, the
>> GIL doesn't really matter if everything stays I/O bound.   It's  
>> only when
>> programs start to drift away from I/O processing that things start  
>> to get
>> fuzzy.   Obviously, the material I presented in the talk is at the  
>> opposite
>> extreme (where there is heavy CPU processing).   The real question  
>> is what
>> is happening for programs that sit somewhere in the middle of that  
>> space.
>>  I honestly don't know.
>
> FWIW, I just patched my py3k branch to use native Mach semaphores
> instead of the mutex/condition variable combo, and it had a fairly
> substantial savings in terms of system calls.  I'll see if I can get
> that into some form that's acceptable for inclusion into the core.  It
> obviously doesn't fix the greater problem, but at least makes things
> more well behaved on Mac.
>
> -John
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