[New-bugs-announce] [issue36139] release GIL on mmap dealloc

[Davide Rizzo]

New submission from Davide Rizzo <sorcio at gmail.com>:

munmap() can take a long time. I think mmap_object_dealloc can trivially release the GIL around this operation. Something similar was already mentioned in https://bugs.python.org/issue1572968 but a general patch was never provided. The dealloc case alone is significant enough to deserve fixing.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 336775
nosy: davide.rizzo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: release GIL on mmap dealloc
versions: Python 3.8

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