I was reading GvR's post on this and came up with a theory on how to
tackle the problem.
I ended up putting it in a blog post.
http://www.brainwavelive.com/blog/index.php?/archives/12-Suggestion-
for-removing-the-Python-Global-Interpreter-Lock.html
What do you think?
Prateek
On Sep 12, 2007, at 9:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Martin> Now we are getting into details: you do NOT have to
lock an
Martin> object to modify its reference count. An atomic
Martin> increment/decrement operation is enough.
Implemented in asm I suspect? For common CPUs this could just be
part of
the normal Python distribution. For uncommon ones this could use a
lock
until someone gets around to writing the necessary couple lines of
assembler.
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