[Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!) (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Sep 11 15🔞36 CEST 2007


On Tue, Sep 11, 2007, Justin Tulloss wrote:

I had a whole long email about exactly what I was doing, but I think I'll get to the point instead. I'm trying to implement a python concurrency API and would like to use cpython to do it. To do that, I would like to remove the GIL.

You should review the work Greg Stein did to remove the GIL in 1.5.2; although the interpreter core has changed considerably since then, I believe the basic principles of the GIL are the same.

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