Re: [pypy-dev] gcc recommendation for pypy 2.5.0

2015-04-06 Thread Roshan Mathew Cherian
Hi Armin Thanks that worked well with gcc 4.1.2. We are working to get our build system to a newer version of oel and gcc Thanks Roshan > On Apr 6, 2015, at 12:38 AM, Armin Rigo wrote: > > Hi Roshan, > >> On 6 April 2015 at 05:44, Roshan Cherian wrote: >> Could I know the >> recommended gc

Re: [pypy-dev] FAQ entry

2015-04-06 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
My question stands - should we add this short explanation (maybe with a link to the blog post) to FAQ as to why you should not use locks in dels? Or maybe why you should not have advanced logic in dels to start with. On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Armin Rigo wrote: > Hi Yuriy, > > (2) cannot be

Re: [pypy-dev] FAQ entry

2015-04-06 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Yuriy, (2) cannot be done in Python without major changes in semantics. User code that makes no use of threads, for example, certainly doesn't expect to be careful about multithreading in the __del__ methods. (1) is hard too. What is hard is to decide when acquiring a lock in a __del__ is sa

Re: [pypy-dev] FAQ entry

2015-04-06 Thread Yuriy Taraday
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 4:44 PM Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Yuriy Taraday wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:48 PM Maciej Fijalkowski > wrote: > >> > >> maybe we should add something along those lines to FAQ > >> > >> http://emptysqua.re/blog/pypy-garbage-collect

Re: [pypy-dev] FAQ entry

2015-04-06 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Yuriy Taraday wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:48 PM Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >> >> maybe we should add something along those lines to FAQ >> >> http://emptysqua.re/blog/pypy-garbage-collection-and-a-deadlock/ > > > Can't it be fixed? I see 2 possible solutions h

Re: [pypy-dev] FAQ entry

2015-04-06 Thread Yuriy Taraday
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:48 PM Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > maybe we should add something along those lines to FAQ > > http://emptysqua.re/blog/pypy-garbage-collection-and-a-deadlock/ Can't it be fixed? I see 2 possible solutions here: 1. We can detect deadlock (any lock contention during GC rou

[pypy-dev] FAQ entry

2015-04-06 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
maybe we should add something along those lines to FAQ http://emptysqua.re/blog/pypy-garbage-collection-and-a-deadlock/ ___ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev

Re: [pypy-dev] gcc recommendation for pypy 2.5.0

2015-04-06 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Roshan, On 6 April 2015 at 05:44, Roshan Cherian wrote: > Could I know the > recommended gcc version for building pypy 2.5.0. Any version that is not seriously outdated would do. I guess 4.1 is too old. We don't specifically try out every single old version of gcc so I can't be more precise