[Python-Dev] Reworking the GIL

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Tue Oct 27 02:09:53 CET 2009


On 26Oct2009 22:45, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
| On 04:18 pm, daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com wrote:
| >On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Antoine Pitrou write:
| >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.
| 
| Despite what I said above, however, I would also take a default
| position against adding any kind of more advanced scheduling system
| here.  It would, perhaps, make sense to expose the APIs for
| controlling the platform scheduler, though.

+1 to both sentences from me.
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