[Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 509: Add a private version to dict

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Thu Apr 14 19:56:55 EDT 2016


On 4/14/2016 3:33 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> When we will be able to get ride of the GIL for the dict type, we will
> probably be able to get an atomic "global_version++" for 64-bit
> integer. Right now, I don't think that an atomic int64++ is available
> on 32-bit archs.
By the time we get an atomic increment for 64-bit integer, we'll be 
wanting it for 128-bit...
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