[Python-Dev] GIL behaviour under Windows

[Phillip Sitbon]

I know I already posted some relevant threads to the other discussion,
but I wanted to point out a couple of specific comments on GIL
fairness from the discussion:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-May/089752.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-May/089755.html

- Phillip

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Tres Seaver <tseaver <at> palladion.com> writes:
>>
>> I read Sturla as saying there were 99,939 switches out of a possible
>> 100,000, with sys.checkinterval set to 100.
>
> Oops, you're right.
> But depending on the elapsed time (again :-)), it may be too high, because
> too many switches per second will add a lot of overhead and decrease performance.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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