[Python-Dev] GIL, Python 3, and MP vs. UP

[Florian Weimer]

* Michael Hudson:

> Not to my knowledge.  I've always thought that it would be pretty
> hard.  I'd be interested in being proved wrong.

The real problem is that you can ditch most extension modules. 8-(

It sounds more like a fun project for the Python core, though.

>> Copying GC might help to get rid of the GIL *and* improve performance
>> in the accept+fork model (because read-only object access does not
>> trigger copy-on-write anymore).
>
> How does a copying gc differ much from a non-copying non-refcounted gc
> here?

You could copy immutable objects to a separate set of pages and never
collect them (especially if recursively refer to immutable objects
only).