[Python-ideas] Ideas towards GIL removal

[Greg Ewing]

Aahz wrote:
 >
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007, Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
 > > even a 6 millisecond pause could be too long in some
> > applications, such as high frame rate animation.
>
> 6ms slices still allow for >150 frames/sec.

Only if you don't want to do anything else during your frame.
At 50fps, 6ms is nearly one-third of your frame time.

However, I tend to agree that this approach has the greatest
chance of succeeding of any suggestion I've seen so far.

--
Greg