[Python-Dev] PEP 556: Threaded garbage collection

[Larry Hastings]

On 09/08/2017 12:30 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017, at 12:24, Larry Hastings wrote:
>>
>> On 09/08/2017 12:04 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>>> - Why not run all (Python) finalizers on the thread and not just ones
>>> from cycles?
>> Two reasons:
>>
>>   1. Because some code relies on the finalizer being called on the thread
>>      where the last reference is dropped.  This is usually the same
>>      thread where the object was created.  Some irritating third-party
>>      libraries make demands on callers, e.g. "you can only interact with
>>      / destroy X objects on your 'main thread'". This is often true of
>>      windowing / GUI libraries.  (For example, I believe this was true of
>>      Direct3D, at least as of D3D8; it was also often true of Win32 USER
>>      objects.)
> Is the requirement that the construction and destruction be literally on
> the same thread or merely non-concurrent? The GIL would provide the
> latter.


Literally the same thread.  My theory was that these clowntown external 
libraries are hiding important details in thread local storage, but I 
don't actually know.


//arry/
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