[Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!) (original) (raw)
Hrvoje Nikšić hrvoje.niksic at avl.com
Fri Sep 14 09:25:24 CEST 2007
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On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 18:38 -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.
ob_refcnt is signed. :-)
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