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

[Daniel Dittmar]

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

No on the level that that Python reference counting is implemented. The 
CPUs have often special assembler ops for these operations. I think that 
it's even more complicated as some machines require additional read and 
write barriers around these operations.

>> Take a look at IPython1 and it's parallel computing capabilities [1,
[...]
> I do selected things with interprocess shared memory techniques already. 
> Thats medium efficent.
> Multiple interpreters inside one process seem to be most promising for 
> seemless multi-core programming. 

Both IPython and Jython use multiple CPUs without the GIL, so you don't 
need to add the complication of multiple interpreters.

 > As all Python objects share the same
 > malloc space - thats the key requirement in order to get the main
 > effect. As soon as with have object pickling in between its well away
 > from this very discussion.

There's the complication that CPython has garbage collection in addition 
to reference counting. I'm not sure what happens when the garbage 
collector looks at objects rooted in another interpreter.

Daniel