On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> On 28/07/10 23:12, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
>> It should be noted, though, that a full GC can be detrimental to
>> real-time applications. Kristján has already explained how some of his
>> software disabled the cyclic GC, and took care of breakin
On 28/07/10 23:12, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
It should be noted, though, that a full GC can be detrimental to
real-time applications. Kristján has already explained how some of his
software disabled the cyclic GC, and took care of breaking cycles
manually instead.
This worries me, too. I'd be upse
On 28/07/2010 12:43, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
On 28 Jul, 2010,at 12:56 PM, Michael Foord
wrote:
On 28/07/2010 11:50, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Ronald Oussoren
> wrote:
>
>> In my opinion the GIL is a weak point of CPython and it would be
nice if it
>> could be
On 28 Jul, 2010,at 12:56 PM, Michael Foord wrote:On 28/07/2010 11:50, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Ronald Oussoren
> wrote:
>
>> In my opinion the GIL is a weak point of CPython and it would be nice if it
>> could be fixed. That is however easier said than done, a
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:56:16 +0100
Michael Foord wrote:
> > This is the kind of approach that seems to hold the most promise of
> > removing the GIL without incurring the single-threaded performance hit
> > that has been the achilles heel of previous attempts at creating a
> > free-threaded CPytho
On 28/07/2010 11:50, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Ronald Oussoren
wrote:
In my opinion the GIL is a weak point of CPython and it would be nice if it
could be fixed. That is however easier said than done, a number of people
have tried in the past and ran into imple
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Ronald Oussoren
wrote:
> In my opinion the GIL is a weak point of CPython and it would be nice if it
> could be fixed. That is however easier said than done, a number of people
> have tried in the past and ran into implementation limitations like our
> refcountin
