[Python-Dev] A bit about the GIL (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 1 04:06:49 CEST 2013


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:49 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>wrote:

On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:14:11 +0200, =?UTF-8?Q?AlfredoSolanoMart=C3=ADnez?= <asolano at icai.es> wrote: > Simply put, make the reference counter a sharded one. That is, separate it > into several subcounters, in this case one for each thread.

It seems to me this has a family resemblance to some of the stuff Trent is doing in his parallel Python work.

It's also a thread for python-ideas, not python-dev.

Cheers, Nick.

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