"High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing?
Sturla Molden
sturla.molden at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 13:51:28 EDT 2014
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> [Aside: The thing that people fail to understand is that the GIL is not in
> fact something which *prevents* multi-tasking, but it *enables* cooperative
> multi-tasking:
>
> http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf
>
> although that's not to say that there aren't some horrible performance
> characteristics of the GIL. David Beazley has identified issues with the
> GIL which suggest room for improving the GIL and avoiding "GIL battles"
> which are responsible for much of the overhead of CPU-bound threads. Any C
> programmers who want to hack on the interpreter core?]
Didn't the "new GIL" fix some of these problems?
Sturla
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