Idea for removing the GIL...

[Aahz]

In article <b8112a95-0c8d-41b7-9e42-805e63a78b1c at o32g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
Carl Banks  <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>The real reason they never replaced the GIL is that fine-grained
>locking is expensive with reference counting.  The only way the cost
>of finer-grained locking would be acceptable, then, is if they got rid
>of the reference counting altogether, and that was considered too
>drastic a change.

...especially given CPython's goal of easy integration with C libraries.
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