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

Jon Ribbens jon+python-dev at unequivocal.co.uk
Fri Sep 14 03:01:22 CEST 2007


On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:38:05PM -0500, skip at pobox.com wrote:

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.

I do believe I already suggested that ;-)



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