[Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!) (original) (raw)
Prateek Sureka surekap at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 06:30:43 CEST 2007
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I was reading GvR's post on this and came up with a theory on how to
tackle the problem.
I ended up putting it in a blog post.
http://www.brainwavelive.com/blog/index.php?/archives/12-Suggestion- for-removing-the-Python-Global-Interpreter-Lock.html What do you think?
Prateek
On Sep 12, 2007, at 9:08 PM, skip at pobox.com wrote:
Martin> Now we are getting into details: you do NOT have to lock an Martin> object to modify its reference count. An atomic Martin> increment/decrement operation is enough. Implemented in asm I suspect? For common CPUs this could just be part of the normal Python distribution. For uncommon ones this could use a lock until someone gets around to writing the necessary couple lines of assembler. Skip
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