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

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Mon May 17 14:47:25 CEST 2010


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 14:12, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

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.

Are you referring to the "New GIL"?

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