[Python-Dev] A bit about the GIL

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 1 04:06:49 CEST 2013


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:49 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:14:11 +0200,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Alfredo_Solano_Mart=C3=ADnez?= <asolano at icai.es> wrote:
> > Simply put, make the reference counter a sharded one. That is, separate
> it
> > into several subcounters, in this case one for each thread.
>
> It seems to me this has a family resemblance to some of the
> stuff Trent is doing in his parallel Python work.
>

It's also a thread for python-ideas, not python-dev.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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