2011/3/14 Timothy Baldridge <[email protected]>: > I guess I'm missing something, but what's wrong with simply ripping > out the GIL? In C# we have threads, C FFI (via PInvoke), and never > have any major issues with threading. It seems to me that the GIL is > only needed because assumptions were made when writing the > interpreter. I don't know if it's full of global variables or > something, but can anyone explain why a GIL is needed at all? I've > done quite a bit of multi-threading programming, and I fail to see the > need for a GIL.
Many reasons. The biggest being python data structures aren't thread-safe. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
