[Python-ideas] Remove GIL with CAS instructions?

geremy condra debatem1 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 01:39:47 CEST 2009


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no> wrote:
> Casey Duncan skrev:
>>
>> I doubt anyone here would disagree with that, but to be taken seriously,
>> you'll need to be *much* more specific. Enlighten us.
>
> I just showed you thread-safe incref and decref that don't require a lock.
>
> How specific should I be?
>

I suspect it's going to take working code- after all, if it isn't worth your
time to implement, I don't think very many others are going to leap
up and do it, however much benefit your perceive it having.

Geremy Condra



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