[Python-Dev] GIL musings (was Re: Thoughts fresh after EuroPython)

[Greg Ewing]

On 28/07/10 23:12, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> It should be noted, though, that a full GC can be detrimental to
> real-time applications. Kristján has already explained how some of his
> software disabled the cyclic GC, and took care of breaking cycles
> manually instead.

This worries me, too. I'd be upset if I could no longer write
games in Python that achieve smooth animation because of
unpredictable GC pauses.

-- 
Greg