Why GIL? (was Re: what's the point of rpython?)
Paul Rubin
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Sat Jan 24 00:40:42 EST 2009
Carl Banks <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> writes:
> > What's more, this matters when considering a GIL-less implementation.
> > Typical method calls can traverse lots of mutable stuff just to find the
> > function to invoke.
>
> Now that doesn't make sense at all. What is all this mutable stuff
> you have to go through, and what does it have to do with the GIL-less
> implementation?
foo.bar() has to look up bar in foo's attribute dictionary.
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