[Python-Dev] "Fixing" the new GIL

Daniel Stutzbach daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com
Sat Mar 13 23:18:23 CET 2010


On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> - the second mechanism dynamically computes the "interactiveness" of a
>  thread and allows interactive threads to steal the GIL quickly. In
>  this approach, IO methods don't have to be modified at all.
>

I like the second approach as well, assuming "interactiveness" can be
computed cheaply.
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Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.
President, Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC <http://stutzbachenterprises.com>
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