On 05/20/2013 03:55 AM, Fábio Santos wrote:
My use case was a tight loop processing an image pixel by pixel, or crunching a CSV file. If it only uses local variables (and probably hold a lock before releasing the GIL) it should be safe, no?
Are you making function calls, using system libraries, or creating or deleting any objects? All of these use the GIL because they use common data structures shared among all threads. At the lowest level, creating an object requires locked access to the memory manager.
Don't forget, the GIL gets used much more for Python internals than it does for the visible stuff.
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