[Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!)

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    Brett> We should probably document where all of these globals lists are
    Brett> instead of relying on looking for all file level static
    Brett> declarations or something.

I smell a wiki page.

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    Brett> Or would there be benefit to moving things like this to the
    Brett> interpreter struct so that threads within a single interpreter
    Brett> call are locked but interpreters can act much more independently?

Would that simplify things all that much?  All containers would probably
still rely on the GIL.  Also, all objects rely on it to do reference count
increment/decrement as I recall.

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