Re: [Python-Dev] Summing up

2010-05-19 Thread geremy condra
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 2010 21:43:30 +0200 > Regardless of the fact that apparently noone reported it in real-world > conditions, we *could* decide that the issue needs fixing. If we > decide so, Nir's approach is the most rigorous one: it tries

Re: [Python-Dev] Summing up

2010-05-19 Thread Bill Janssen
Nick Coghlan wrote: > B. some more thought should be given to incorporating the new GIL into > 2.7. However, this requires two things: > - an update to the patch in 7753 to either retain the old GIL for > platforms not supported by the new GIL or else to make the new GIL a > configure option >

Re: [Python-Dev] Summing up

2010-05-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 19/05/10 10:35, David Beazley wrote: Antoine, This is a pretty good summary that mirrors my thoughts on the GIL matter as well. In the big picture, I do think it's desirable for Python to address the multicore performance issue--namely to not have the performance needlessly thrashed in that

Re: [Python-Dev] Summing up

2010-05-18 Thread David Beazley
Antoine, This is a pretty good summary that mirrors my thoughts on the GIL matter as well. In the big picture, I do think it's desirable for Python to address the multicore performance issue--namely to not have the performance needlessly thrashed in that environment. The original new GIL ad

[Python-Dev] Summing up

2010-05-18 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 18 May 2010 21:43:30 +0200 "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > I can understand why Antoine is being offended: it's his implementation > that you attacked. You literally said "At has been shown, it also in > certain cases will race with the OS scheduler, so this is not already > fixed", claiming