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

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Fri Sep 14 01:38:05 CEST 2007


Hrvoje> More precisely, Python will call the deallocator appropriate for
Hrvoje> the object type.  If that deallocator does nothing, the object
Hrvoje> continues to live.  Such objects could also start out with a
Hrvoje> refcount of sys.maxint or so to ensure that calls to the no-op
Hrvoje> deallocator are unlikely.

Maybe sys.maxint/2? You'd hate for the first incref to invoke the deallocator even if it was a no-op.

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