[Python-Dev] GIL removal question

[Eric Snow]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:14, Vlad Riscutia <riscutiavlad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Removing GIL is interesting work and probably multiple people are willing
>> to contribute. Threading and synchronization is a deep topic and it might be
>> that if just one person toys around with removing GIL he might not see
>> performance improvement (not meaning to offend anyone who tried this,
>> honestly) but what about forking a branch for this work, with some good
>> benchmarks in place and have community contribute? Let's say first step
>> would be just replacing GIL with some fine grained locks with expected
>> performance degradation but afterwards we can try to incrementally improve
>> on this.
>> Thank you,
>> Vlad
>
> Feel free to start this: http://hg.python.org/cpython

+1 on not waiting for someone else to do it if you have an idea. :)

Bitbucket makes it really easy for anyone to fork a repo into a new
project and they keep an up to date mirror of the CPython repo:

https://bitbucket.org/mirror/cpython/overview

-eric

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