[Python-Dev] Reworking the GIL

[Antoine Pitrou]

Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan <at> ccpgames.com> writes:
> 
> In my experience (from stackless python) using priority wakeup for IO can
result in very erratic
> scheduling when there is much IO going on, every IO trumping another.

I whipped up a trivial multithreaded HTTP server using
socketserver.ThreadingMixin and wsgiref, and used apachebench against it with a
reasonable concurrency level (10 requests at once). Enabling/disabling priority
requests doesn't seem to make a difference.

Regards

Antoine.