Exploiting Dual Core's with Py_NewInterpreter's separated GIL ?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

robert schrieb:
> in combination with some simple locking (anyway necessary) I don't see a
> problem in ref-counting.

In the current implementation, simple locking isn't necessary.
The refcounter can be modified freely since the code modifying
it will always hold the GIL.

> ---- Question Besides:  do concurrent INC/DEC machine OP-commands
> execute atomically on Multi-Cores as they do in Single-Core threads?

Not necessarily, no. On x86, you need to prefix the instruction
with the LOCK prefix for it to become atomic. Otherwise, the
two necessary read/write cycles to main memory may interleave
with the memory operations of another processor.

On other processors, INC <mem> might not exist at all as an
instruction; when you only have register add, then implementing
an atomic increment is a challenge. That's why the Windows API
provides you with an atomic increment function as part of the
operating system API.

Regards,
Martin