Hi, On 26 February 2017 at 11:12, Yury V. Zaytsev <y...@shurup.com> wrote: > 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 (...)
To complete that answer, I updated the faq: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#does-pypy-have-a-gil-why A bientôt, Armin. _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
