[Python-Dev] A bit about the GIL (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Mon Apr 1 03:49:19 CEST 2013


On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:14:11 +0200, =?UTF-8?Q?Alfredo_Solano_Mart=C3=ADnez?= <asolano at icai.es> wrote:

Simply put, make the reference counter a sharded one. That is, separate it into several subcounters, in this case one for each thread.

It seems to me this has a family resemblance to some of the stuff Trent is doing in his parallel Python work.

--David



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