[Python-Dev] Reworking the GIL

[Guido van Rossum]

Antoine,

How close are you to merging this into the Py3k branch? It looks like
a solid piece of work, that can only get better in the period between
now and the release of 3.2. But I don't want to rush you, and I only
have had a brief look at your code. (I whipped up a small Dave Beazley
example and was impressed by the performance of your code compared to
the original py3k branch -- from 150% to 100% CPU usage according to
top with only 2 threads.)

My only suggestion so far: the description could use more explicit
documentation on the various variables and macros and how they
combine.

I also expect that priority requests aren't important; it somehow
seems strange that if multiple threads are all doing I/O each new
thread whose I/O completes would get to preempt whoever else is active
immediately. (Also the choice of *not* making a priority request when
a read returns no bytes seems strange 00 if I read the code
correctly.)

Anyway, thanks for this work!

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)