Message 126402 - Python tracker

Message126402

Author	pitrou
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, grahamd, loewis, mhammond, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date	2011-01-17.15:06:37
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> Graham - the cases you describe are the things I was saying don't > currently work in my post and wouldn't be helped by Antoine's patch. > Your thoughts on how we could possibly make it work actually parallel > mine (although there may be fun and games with making sure the > respective GILs are acquired and released in an appropriate order when > switching interpreters). There is only a single GIL, not one per interpreter. And this mustn't change since some objects are shared and their reference counts shouldn't be touched concurrently.

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> Graham - the cases you describe are the things I was saying don't
> currently work in my post and wouldn't be helped by Antoine's patch.
> Your thoughts on how we could possibly make it work actually parallel
> mine (although there may be fun and games with making sure the
> respective GILs are acquired and released in an appropriate order when
> switching interpreters).

There is only a single GIL, not one per interpreter. And this mustn't
change since some objects are shared and their reference counts
shouldn't be touched concurrently.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2011-01-17 15:06:39	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, loewis, mhammond, amaury.forgeotdarc, ncoghlan, grahamd
2011-01-17 15:06:37	pitrou	link	issue10915 messages
2011-01-17 15:06:37	pitrou	create