threads

[Hrvoje Niksic]

"Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw at cnri.reston.va.us> writes:

> You might be interesting in digging around for Greg Stein's
> free-threading patches.  Greg did a lot of work, I think in the
> Python 1.4 days, to remove the central interpreter lock and make all
> the data structures and such thread safe.

Why would I want to do that?  If Greg's patches haven't been applied
to the base, surely mine would not be either.  I certainly have no
wish to maintain a parallel version of Python.