Why GIL? (was Re: what's the point of rpython?)

[Carl Banks]

On Jan 23, 5:48 pm, Bryan Olson <fakeaddr... at nowhere.org> wrote:
> Carl Banks wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > BTW, class instances are usually immutable and thus don't require a
> > mutex in the system I described.
>
> Then you are describing a language radically different from Python.

Bzzt.

Hint: aside from the reference count, most class instances are
immutable in Python *today*.


Carl Banks