Kristján Valur Jónsson <krist...@ccpgames.com> added the comment: Any thougts? Is a 60% performance increase for the common case of acquiring an uncontested lock worth doing?
Btw, for our console game I also opted for non-semaphore based locks in thread_pthread.h, because our console profilers were alarmed at all the kernel transitions caused by the GIL being ticked.... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11618> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com