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

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Wed Sep 12 17:31:59 CEST 2007 

Brett> We should probably document where all of these globals lists are
Brett> instead of relying on looking for all file level static
Brett> declarations or something.

I smell a wiki page.

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Brett> Or would there be benefit to moving things like this to the
Brett> interpreter struct so that threads within a single interpreter
Brett> call are locked but interpreters can act much more independently?

Would that simplify things all that much? All containers would probably still rely on the GIL. Also, all objects rely on it to do reference count increment/decrement as I recall.

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