Future of Pypy?

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/22/2015 11:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> If you want *CPython* to work without a GIL, well, are you volunteering to 
> do the work? It is a massive job, and the core devs aren't terribly 
> interested. Probably because they understand that the GIL is not often an 
> unsurmountable problem in real life. That brings us to the point I was 
> making: I believe, and the core devs appear to think the same, that the 
> *actual* number of people who would benefit from CPython losing the GIL is 
> not large enough to justify the work it would require.

If memory serves, the first and primary point to losing the GIL is that single-threaded code must run just as fast (or
at least close to just as fast) as the GIL version, and previous attempts have all badly failed that requisite.

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~Ethan~

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