[Python-ideas] Re: Improved multi-tasking performance through deterministic GIL hand-off

2021-05-11 Thread Shreyan Avigyan
I'm currently learning about the GIL and how can it be removed. So I'm confessing that I understood only half of your words and I can be wrong. As far I understood by reading your long passage, the problem is other threads don't get enough chance to run and the CPU-Bound Python process will

[Python-ideas] Re: Improved multi-tasking performance through deterministic GIL hand-off

2021-05-10 Thread Barry Scott
> On 10 May 2021, at 20:23, Barry Scott wrote: > > > >> On 10 May 2021, at 15:30, Sophist wrote: >> >> I don't know how many people will remember some work that David Beazley did >> about a decade ago on how the GIL impacts multithreading performance - >> essentially he instrumented the

[Python-ideas] Re: Improved multi-tasking performance through deterministic GIL hand-off

2021-05-10 Thread Barry Scott
> On 10 May 2021, at 15:30, Sophist wrote: > > I don't know how many people will remember some work that David Beazley did > about a decade ago on how the GIL impacts multithreading performance - > essentially he instrumented the Python interpreter to log how multiple > threads competed