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

Justin Tulloss tulloss2 at uiuc.edu
Tue Sep 11 17:07:34 CEST 2007


On 9/11/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> 1. Some global interpreter state/modules are protected (where are these > globals at?) It's the interpreter and thread state itself (pystate.h), for the thread state, also PyThreadStateCurrent. Then there is the GC state, in particular "generations". There are various caches and counters also.

Caches seem like they definitely might be a problem. Would you mind expanding on this a little? What gets cached and why?

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