On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Arnar Birgisson wrote:
> >From the discussion about getting rid of the GIL lately, what I read
> from it is that reference counting is the main obstacle. My question
> is, why aren't hardware supported atomic increments and decrements
> being used for the referenc
Hi all,
I'm new here, so bear with me. I tried googling this, but the closest
I came up with was a post from 2000.
>From the discussion about getting rid of the GIL lately, what I read
from it is that reference counting is the main obstacle. My question
is, why aren't hardware supported atomic in