[Python-Dev] Making python C-API thread safe (try 2) (original) (raw)

Harri Pesonen fuerte at sci.fi
Fri Sep 12 00:31:25 EDT 2003

Jeremy Hylton wrote:

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:16, Harri Pesonen wrote:

I'm also wondering why this problem has not been addressed before? If I had the power to change Python, this would be the first thing I did.

Try coming up with a patch. I expect it would be considered provided that it was maximally backwards compatible with the existing C API and did not reduce performance on benchmarks like pystone. It would be totally incompatible with the existing C API. The performance would be better.

That is to say, sure it would be nice, but at what cost?

At cost of breaking up with the past, but eventually it has to be done.

If I had time, I would create this multithreading Python myself, call it a different language perhaps. I don't know if the Python licence allows this.

Harri

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