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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Sep 14 00:59:36 CEST 2007


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Now we are getting into details: you do NOT have to lock an object to modify its reference count. An atomic increment/decrement operation is enough.

I stand corrected. But if it were as simple as that, I think it would have been done by now. I got the impression that this had already been tried, and it was still too slow.

-- Greg



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