Threads, GIL and re.match() performance

[Pau Freixes]

But Python C-API[1] it's the main base for extent python with C/c++, and
this is not not threadsafe.? I dont understand

[1] http://docs.python.org/api/api.html

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Benjamin <musiccomposition at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Jun 25, 9:05 am, Mirko Dziadzka <mirko.dziad... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 1) Is there a reason for this?
>
> I think it is because the Python re library uses the Python C-API
> which is not threadsafe.
> > 2) Is the regex library not thread-safe?
> > 3) Is it possible, to release the GIL in re.match() to
> >    get more performance?
>
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