Progress on the Gilectomy
Paul Rubin
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Sun Jun 18 20:20:28 EDT 2017
I always thought the GIL removal obstacle was the need to put locks
around every refcount adjustment, and the only real cure for that is to
use a tracing GC. That is a good idea in many ways, but it would break
the existing C API quite seriously. Reworking the C modules in the
stdlib would be a large but not impossible undertaking. The many
external C modules out there would be more of an issue.
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