[Python-Dev] GIL removal question (original) (raw)
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Aug 12 17:42:26 CEST 2011
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On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:32:23 -0500 VanL <van.lindberg at gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/11/2011 2:11 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: > > (b) another threading model (e.g. one interpreter per thread, as in Tcl, > Erlang, or .NET app domains).
We are close to this, in that we already have baked-in support for subinterpreters. Out of curiosity, why isn't this being pursued?
Because it is half-baked, breaks with some features in some extension modules, and still requires the GIL for shared data structures.
Regards
Antoine.
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