Re: [C++-sig] Managing the GIL across competing threads

2012-03-18 Thread Jim Bosch
On 03/17/2012 11:20 PM, Adam Preble wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Niall Douglas mailto:s_sourcefo...@nedprod.com>> wrote: If by "Python side" you mean Boost.Python, then I agree: BPL has no support for GIL management at all, and it really ought to. This was one of the thi

Re: [C++-sig] Managing the GIL across competing threads

2012-03-18 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 2012-03-18 11:54, Jim Bosch wrote: > On 03/17/2012 11:20 PM, Adam Preble wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Niall Douglas >> mailto:s_sourcefo...@nedprod.com>> wrote: >> >> If by "Python side" you mean Boost.Python, then I agree: BPL has no >> support for GIL management at

Re: [C++-sig] Managing the GIL across competing threads

2012-03-18 Thread Niall Douglas
On 17 Mar 2012 at 22:20, Adam Preble wrote: > > If by "Python side" you mean Boost.Python, then I agree: BPL has no > > support for GIL management at all, and it really ought to. This was > > one of the things that was discussed in the BPL v3 discussions on > > this list a few months ago. > > > He

Re: [C++-sig] Managing the GIL across competing threads

2012-03-18 Thread Niall Douglas
On 18 Mar 2012 at 12:05, Stefan Seefeld wrote: > > We didn't go into a lot of depth on the threading, I'm afraid, as one > > of the problems is that the guy starting the effort - me - doesn't > > actually know much about threaded programming. But I am hoping that I > > can design things in such a

Re: [C++-sig] Managing the GIL across competing threads

2012-03-18 Thread Niall Douglas
On 18 Mar 2012 at 11:54, Jim Bosch wrote: > We didn't go into a lot of depth on the threading, I'm afraid, as one of > the problems is that the guy starting the effort - me - doesn't actually > know much about threaded programming. But I am hoping that I can design > things in such a way that