[Python-ideas] An alternate approach to async IO

[Sturla Molden]

Den 27. nov. 2012 kl. 23:36 skrev Trent Nelson <trent at snakebite.org>:

> 
>    Right, but with things like interlocked lists, you can make that
>    CPython|background_IO synchronization barrier much more performant
>    than relying on GIL acquisition.

You always need the GIL to call back to Python.  You don't need it for anything else. 

Sturla