[Chicago] Kickstarter Fund to get rid of the GIL

[Joshua Herman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Joshua Herman
<zitterbewegung at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about making all datastructures immutable and performing copies of
> each data structure instead of mutation? Its similar to what clojure
> and erlang does.
>
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> "high performance just create multi processes that message" very rarely have
>>> I heard IPC and high performance in the same sentence.
>>> Alex
>>
>> Can you elaborate?  Taking full advantage of multiple processors could
>> increase performance, no?  I believe IPC was Guido's suggestion.
>>
>> IPC of some sort has already been pretty well established approach.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Brian Ray
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