Parallelization on muli-CPU hardware?

Daniel Dittmar daniel at dittmar.net
Tue Oct 5 17:32:53 EDT 2004


Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> So, IMHO, there are basically the following design decisions:
> GIL: large granularity
> MSL: (many small locks) would slow down the overall execution of Python
>      programs.
> MSLu: (many small locks, unsafe) inacceptable because it would change
>       Python experience ;)

You forgot GarbageCollection instead of reference counting.

Daniel



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