Nir Aides wrote: > I would like to restart this thread with 2 notes from the lively discussion: > > a) Issue 7946 (and this discussion?) concerns Python 3.2 > b) The GIL problems are not specific to OSX. The old and new GIL > misbehave on GNU/Linux and Windows too.
I think Antoine and Bill went off an a bit of a tangent that *is* specific to Mac OS X and the old GIL (where a Python application not only fails to take advantage of additional cores, but actually runs slower than it does on a less powerful single core machine). The convoying problem identified in issue 7946 does indeed apply to the new GIL on multiple platforms. Without reviewing either proposed patch in detail, I personally am slightly inclined to favour David's suggested solution, both because I better understand the explanation of how it works (and simplicity is a virtue from a maintainability point of view), and because the BFS approach appears to run into trouble when it comes to identifying a suitable cross platform time reference. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
