[Python-Dev] Reworking the GIL

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Nov 2 15:53:30 CET 2009


Sturla Molden <sturla <at> molden.no> writes:
> 
> By the way Antoine, if you think granularity of 1-2 ms is sufficient, 

It certainly is.
But once again, I'm no Windows developer and I don't have a native Windost host
to test on; therefore someone else (you?) has to try.

Also, the MSDN doc (*) says timeBeginPeriod() can have a detrimental effect on
system performance; I don't know how much of it is true.

(*) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd757624(VS.85).aspx




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