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

[Carl Banks]

On Jan 24, 12:05 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:
> The default metatype for Python classes would be
> mutable_dict_type, which is a type wherein the object itself would be
> mutable but it would still have all the mutator methods __init__,
> __setattr__, etc., but they could only act on the __dict__.


Not wanting to risk confusion.

"The default metatype for Python classes would be mutable_dict_type,
which is a type wherein the object itself would be ***immutable*** but
it would still have all the mutator methods __init__, __setattr__,
etc., but they could only act on the __dict__."


Carl Banks