On 12/4/11 3:51 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 09:39 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 12/3/11 3:02 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
The PyPy JIT is clearly a "big win". I am sure Armin will come up with
more stuff :-)
Do they do anything about the GIL?
Soon. Having failed to convince Guido he had to remove the GIL from
CPython, my message has been taken up by the PyPy folk and they are
looking at using STM as a technique to be able to remove the GIL. Not
sure whether this will hit performance. The multiprocessing package
will need a severe rewrite if STM works to replace the GIL.
What's the plan with doing I/O and other irreversible actions during STM
transactions then?
Andrei
