On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:15 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> After implementing the aforementioned step 5, you will find that the
>> performance of everything, including the threaded code, will be quite a bit
>> worse. Frankly, this is probably the most significant obstacle to have any
>> kind of GIL-less Python with reasonable performance.
>
> PyPy would actually make a significantly better basis for this kind of
> experimentation, since they *don't* use reference counting for their
> memory management.
Jython may be a better choice. It is all about concurrency. Its dicts are
built on top of Java's ConcurrentHashMap for example.
Raymond
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