[Python-Dev] GIL behaviour under Windows (original) (raw)

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Thu Oct 22 19:05:50 CEST 2009

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Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Sturla Molden <sturla molden.no> writes:

With two threads and a check interval og 100, only 61 of 100000 check intervals failed to produce a thread-switch in the interpreter. I'd call that rather fair. This number lacks the elapsed time. 61 switches in one second is probably enough, the same amount of switches in 10 or 20 seconds is too small (at least for threads needing good responsivity, e.g. I/O threads).

I read Sturla as saying there were 99,939 switches out of a possible 100,000, with sys.checkinterval set to 100.

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