[Python-Dev] Reworking the GIL

[Christian Heimes]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Christian Heimes <lists <at> cheimes.de> writes:
>> +1 from me. I trust you like Brett does.
>>
>> How much work would it cost to make your patch optional at compile time?
> 
> Quite a bit, because it changes the logic for processing asynchronous pending
> calls (signals) and asynchronous exceptions in the eval loop. The #defines would
> get quite convoluted, I think; I'd prefer not to do that.

Based on the new piece of information I totally agree.

> I don't really think so. The GIL is taken and released much more predictably
> than it was before. The thing that might be worth checking is a workload with
> many threads (say 50 or 100). Does anyone have that?

I don't have an application that works on Python 3 and uses that many
threads, sorry.

Christian