Hi 2011/3/16 <ben.yo...@sungard.com>: > Having said that, if the PyPy GCs were thread-safe, how many other > structures would need to be changed to allow a free threaded python that's > "use at own risk" e.g. one that's allowed to crash if you do silly things as > I guess most people would be happy with that. The import machinery would > need to be thread safe but how much more?
All low-level structures: rlist, rdict &co. For example these functions would need some kind of synchronization: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/6dabfe362323/pypy/rpython/lltypesystem/rdict.py#cl-712 And probably many more... -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
