[Python-Dev] Reworking the GIL

Daniel Stutzbach daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com
Mon Oct 26 17:18:59 CET 2009


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>wrote:

> Er, I prefer to keep things simple. If you have lots of I/O you should
> probably
> use an event loop rather than separate threads.
>

On Windows, sometimes using a single-threaded event loop is sometimes
impossible.  WaitForMultipleObjects(), which is the Windows equivalent to
select() or poll(), can handle a maximum of only 64 objects.

Do we really need priority requests at all?  They seem counter to your
desire for simplicity and allowing the operating system's scheduler to do
its work.

That said, if a thread's time budget is merely paused during I/O rather than
reset, then a thread making frequent (but short) I/O requests cannot starve
the system.

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Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.
President, Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC <http://stutzbachenterprises.com>
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