On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Brian Curtin <brian.cur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:14, Vlad Riscutia <riscutiav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Removing GIL is interesting work and probably multiple people are willing >> to contribute. Threading and synchronization is a deep topic and it might be >> that if just one person toys around with removing GIL he might not see >> performance improvement (not meaning to offend anyone who tried this, >> honestly) but what about forking a branch for this work, with some good >> benchmarks in place and have community contribute? Let's say first step >> would be just replacing GIL with some fine grained locks with expected >> performance degradation but afterwards we can try to incrementally improve >> on this. >> Thank you, >> Vlad > > Feel free to start this: http://hg.python.org/cpython
+1 on not waiting for someone else to do it if you have an idea. :) Bitbucket makes it really easy for anyone to fork a repo into a new project and they keep an up to date mirror of the CPython repo: https://bitbucket.org/mirror/cpython/overview -eric > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ericsnowcurrently%40gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
