[Python-Dev] Fixing the GIL (with a BFS scheduler) (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon May 17 14:12:29 CEST 2010


On Mon, 17 May 2010 08:28:08 +0200 Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

But the scheduler is so simplistic it ends up fighting with the OS scheduler, and a large amount of CPU time is used up switching instead of executing.

This is already fixed with py3k.

Antoine.



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