Re: [Python-Dev] newgil for python 2.5.4

2010-01-21 Thread Ross Cohen
Done: http://bugs.python.org/issue7753 Porting to 2.7 was easier since it didn't involve putting the changesets listed in issue 4293. The performance numbers in the bug are more accurate than the ones I previously posted. Turns out the system python is not a good baseline. The improvement from th

Re: [Python-Dev] newgil for python 2.5.4

2010-01-20 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2010/1/20 Ross Cohen : > Comments? Suggestions? I'm going to continue fixing this up, but was > wondering if this could possibly make it into python 2.7. Yes, it could, but please post it to the tracker instead of attaching patches. -- Regards, Benjamin

[Python-Dev] newgil for python 2.5.4

2010-01-20 Thread Ross Cohen
I put together this patch which switches 2.5.4 over to use the newgil. This was generated by diffing change 76193 (last in the newgil branch) against change 76189 and applying that on top of the changes listed in issue 4293 (http://bugs.python.org/issue4293), specifically 68460, 68461 and 68722. Th