[pypy-dev] GIL

[Armin Rigo]

Hi,

On 26 February 2017 at 11:12, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury at shurup.com> wrote:
> The main reason is not the reference counting itself, but rather that the
> garbage collector (which happens to use reference counting) is not
> thread-safe. It is true that PyPy's garbage collectors do not use reference
> counting, but in itself, this doesn't make them any thread-safer. On top of
> that, there are more subtle issues to take care of (...)

To complete that answer, I updated the faq:
http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#does-pypy-have-a-gil-why


A bientôt,

Armin.