[Python-ideas] Ideas towards GIL removal (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Apr 16 01:52:52 CEST 2007


Brett Cannon wrote:

And I know some people love the (mostly) instantaneous garbage collection when the refcount should be at 0.

Yeah, and even a 6 millisecond pause could be too long in some applications, such as high frame rate animation. 6 milliseconds is a long time for today's GHz processors.

-- Greg



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