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

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    Hrvoje> More precisely, Python will call the deallocator appropriate for
    Hrvoje> the object type.  If that deallocator does nothing, the object
    Hrvoje> continues to live.  Such objects could also start out with a
    Hrvoje> refcount of sys.maxint or so to ensure that calls to the no-op
    Hrvoje> deallocator are unlikely.

Maybe sys.maxint/2?  You'd hate for the first incref to invoke the
deallocator even if it was a no-op.  

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