[Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!)

[Greg Ewing]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Now we are getting into details: you do NOT have to lock
> an object to modify its reference count. An atomic
> increment/decrement operation is enough.

I stand corrected. But if it were as simple as that,
I think it would have been done by now. I got the
impression that this had already been tried, and it
was still too slow.

--
Greg