ESR "Waning of Python" post

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Oct 13 00:43:25 EDT 2018


Paul Rubin wrote:
> I even wonder what happens if you turn Py_INCREF etc. into no-ops,
> install the Boehm garbage collector in a stop-the-world mode, and
> disable the GIL.

I suspect you would run into problems with things that need
mutual exclusion but don't do any locking of their own, because
the GIL is assumed to take care of it.

-- 
Greg



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