[pypy-dev] Thoughts on multithreading in PyPy

[Armin Rigo]

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:33 PM,  <pypy at pocketnix.org> wrote:
> What i am wondering about is if some of the base services provided by
> pypy can be moved into another thread, eg GC and JIT compilation and
> how much of a benfiit there would be to doing so

It would be possible to move the GC or the JIT to another thread,
introducing a lot of complexity but keeping it hidden to the Python
programmer.  You would end up with a program that can use maybe 1.2
core instead of just 1.  That sounds like a lot of work for a minimal
gain.


A bientôt,

Armin.