[Python-3000] GIL

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Thu Apr 20 03:58:29 CEST 2006


It would be interesting to bring ILU up-to-date.  Get the ILU C
library compiling nicely on POSIX (should be trivial), then bring the
Python bindings up-to-date.  That would, once again, give us ONC RPC
and CORBA compatibility, both IPC and RPC.

Bill

> Brett Cannon wrote:
> > I just know this is going to fall under Guido's "code first, then we
> > consider" rule.  The GIL is not currently going to go anywhere without
> > a thorough rearchitecture of the interpreter and that is not planned
> > for Python 3000.  Plus most people here, based on the last time this
> > came up, did not feel like the GIL was that big of a problem.  A good
> > IPC/RPC mechanism would be much more appreciated.
> 
> IPC/RPC would be an great Summer of Code project, if there was a mentor 
> interested.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ian Bicking  /  ianb at colorstudy.com  /  http://blog.ianbicking.org
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