Currenly focus is on PyPy3.5 right? will there be continuation of development after PyPy3.5?
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 4:59 PM Yury V. Zaytsev <y...@shurup.com> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Sebastian K via pypy-dev wrote: > > > can someone explain me why pypy needs the gil? In CPython the main > > reason is the reference counting but pypy doesnt use reference counting. > > The main reason is not the reference counting itself, but rather that the > garbage collector (which happens to use reference counting) is not > thread-safe. It is true that PyPy's garbage collectors do not use > reference counting, but in itself, this doesn't make them any > thread-safer. On top of that, there are more subtle issues to take care > of, so instead of working towards removing the GIL, the decision was made > to investigate a completely different approach to parallelization (STM): > > http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#does-pypy-have-a-gil-why > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Yury V. Zaytsev > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev mailing list > pypy-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev >
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