[Python-Dev] Reworking the GIL (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Oct 26 06:07:26 CET 2009

Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Hello there,

The last couple of days I've been working on an experimental rewrite of the GIL. Since the work has been turning out rather successful (or, at least, not totally useless and crashing!) I thought I'd announce it here.

I am curious as to whether the entire mechanism is or can be turned off when not needed -- when there are not threads (other than the main, starting thread)?

tjr

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