On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 10:03:33 -0700 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 September 2017 at 08:05, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I've written a PEP by which you can tell the GC to run in a dedicated > > thread. The goal is to solve reentrancy issues with finalizers: > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0556/ > > +1 from me for the general concept. (Minor naming idea: "inline" may > be a clearer name for the current behaviour). > > One point that seems worth noting: even with cyclic GC moved out to a > separate thread, __del__ methods and weakref callbacks triggered by a > refcount going to zero will still be called inline in the current > thread. You're right, that bears mentioning. It's much less of a problem, of course, since such calls happen at deterministic places. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
