Re: [pypy-dev] GIL

2017-02-26 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi, On 26 February 2017 at 11:12, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > The main reason is not the reference counting itself, but rather that the > garbage collector (which happens to use reference counting) is not > thread-safe. It is true that PyPy's garbage collectors do not use reference > counting, but i

Re: [pypy-dev] GIL

2017-02-26 Thread Phyo Arkar
Continuation of PyPy-STM dev. On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:41 PM Phyo Arkar wrote: > Currenly focus is on PyPy3.5 right? will there be continuation of > development after PyPy3.5? > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 4:59 PM Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Sebastian K via pypy-dev wrote: >

Re: [pypy-dev] GIL

2017-02-26 Thread Phyo Arkar
Currenly focus is on PyPy3.5 right? will there be continuation of development after PyPy3.5? On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 4:59 PM Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Sebastian K via pypy-dev wrote: > > > can someone explain me why pypy needs the gil? In CPython the main > > reason is the re

Re: [pypy-dev] GIL

2017-02-26 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Sebastian K via pypy-dev wrote: can someone explain me why pypy needs the gil? In CPython the main reason is the reference counting but pypy doesnt use reference counting. The main reason is not the reference counting itself, but rather that the garbage collector (which h

Re: [pypy-dev] GIL

2017-02-26 Thread Phyo Arkar
Please check PyPy-STM http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/stm.html On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 3:43 PM Sebastian K via pypy-dev < pypy-dev@python.org> wrote: > Hello everbody, > > can someone explain me why pypy needs the gil? In CPython the main reason > is the reference counting but pypy doesnt use refe

[pypy-dev] GIL

2017-02-26 Thread Sebastian K via pypy-dev
Hello everbody, can someone explain me why pypy needs the gil? In CPython the main reason is the reference counting but pypy doesnt use reference counting. Thanks in advance. Regards Sebastian ___ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.