[Python-Dev] GIL musings (was Re: Thoughts fresh after EuroPython) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jul 29 06:53:59 CEST 2010

On 28/07/10 23:12, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

It should be noted, though, that a full GC can be detrimental to real-time applications. Kristján has already explained how some of his software disabled the cyclic GC, and took care of breaking cycles manually instead.

This worries me, too. I'd be upset if I could no longer write games in Python that achieve smooth animation because of unpredictable GC pauses.

-- Greg

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