[Python-Dev] Fixing the GIL (with a BFS scheduler)

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 17 May 2010 14:47:25 +0200
Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 14:12, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 May 2010 08:28:08 +0200
> > Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> But the scheduler is so simplistic it ends up fighting with the
> >> OS scheduler, and a large amount of CPU time is used up switching
> >> instead of executing.
> >
> > This is already fixed with py3k.
> 
> Are you referring to the "New GIL"?

Yes.