Hello Eric, > I notice that Guido vetoed this idea, but just in case it should come up > again, I have some thoughts that likely have already occurred to people, > but I didn't notice on the list.
Yes, I hindsight I think Guido was right. (no, I'm not trying to make myself agreeable :-)) > Also, has anybody thought of starting work on making a set of Py* calls > that can be made without having the GIL acquired? In the current state of affairs it would be quite difficult. Each memory allocation can trigger a garbage collection which itself needs the GIL. And Python is full of memory allocations. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
