[Python-Dev] pymalloc killer (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:52:13 -0500

[Guido]

On the other hand, the less sophisticated extension writers never release the GIL at all.

That's an excellent point! I don't know how much to bank it, but it's semi-reassuring.

All I can do is encourage you to keep trying. I find it quite encouraging that you found a constant-time test for non-arena memory at all.

David Abrahams had the key insight there. Those C++ guys really do have some good ideas, if you can whittle away all the baffling syntax to get at the pure tiny thoughts they're thinking .

Making it thread-safe should only add a tiny constant time.

It does now, although it's balancing on a nanometer pinhead. That's good enough so long as nobody sneezes in the general direction of the code.