[Python-ideas] An alternate approach to async IO

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:19:46 -0500
Trent Nelson <trent at snakebite.org> wrote:
> 
>     Got it.  So what about the "no processing that can be usefully done
>     by a C level thread" bit?  I'm trying to discern whether or not you're
>     highlighting a fundamental flaw in the theory/idea ;-)
> 
>     (That it's going to be more optimal to have background threads service
>      IO without the need to acquire the GIL, basically.)

You don't need to acquire the GIL if you use the Py_buffer API in the
right way. You'll figure out the details :-)

Regards

Antoine.