[Python-Dev] Making the GIL faster & lighter on Windows (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue May 26 23:09:30 CEST 2009


Martin v. Löwis <martin v.loewis.de> writes:

What about fairness? I don't know off-hand whether the GIL is fair,

According to a past discussion on this list, the current implementation isn't: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-March/077814.html (at least on the poster's system)

Regards

Antoine.



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