[Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!)
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Sep 14 05:11:00 CEST 2007
Christian Heimes wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance but why does Python do reference counting for truly
> global and static objects
Because it would cost more time to check whether the
reference counting needed to be done than to just do
it anyway.
Remember that *most* refcount operations are on
non-global objects. Putting in a test would slow
all of them down, but only speed a few of them
up.
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