Progress on the Gilectomy

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2017 04:21 pm, Stefan Behnel wrote:

> Serhiy Storchaka schrieb am 11.06.2017 um 07:11:
 
>> And also GIL is used for guaranteeing atomicity of many operations and
>> consistencity of internal structures without using additional locks. Many
>> parts of the core and the stdlib would just not work correctly in
>> multithread environment without GIL.
> 
> And the same applies to external extension modules. The GIL is really handy
> when it comes to reasoning about safety and correctness of algorithms under
> the threat of thread concurrency. Especially in native code, where the
> result of an unanticipated race condition is usually a crash rather than an
> exception.


Thank you Stefan and Serhiy!

I'm tired of people complaining about the GIL as a "mistake" without
acknowledging that it exists for a reason.



-- 
Steve
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.