[Python-Dev] GIL removal question

[Brian Curtin]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:14, Vlad Riscutia <riscutiavlad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Removing GIL is interesting work and probably multiple people are willing
> to contribute. Threading and synchronization is a deep topic and it might be
> that if just one person toys around with removing GIL he might not see
> performance improvement (not meaning to offend anyone who tried this,
> honestly) but what about forking a branch for this work, with some good
> benchmarks in place and have community contribute? Let's say first step
> would be just replacing GIL with some fine grained locks with expected
> performance degradation but afterwards we can try to incrementally improve
> on this.
>
> Thank you,
> Vlad
>

Feel free to start this: http://hg.python.org/cpython
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