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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Sep 13 13:15:39 CEST 2007


To put it another way, would it actually matter if the reference counts for such objects became hopelessly wrong due to non-atomic adjustments?

If they drop to zero (which may happen due to non-atomic adjustments), Python will try to release the static memory, which will crash the malloc implementation.

Regards, Martin



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