[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sandra> However, I don't expect that the GIL can be safely removed from > Sandra> CPython. > > It was removed at one point in the dim, dark past (circa Python 1.4) on an > experimental basis. Aside from the huge amount of work, it resulted in > significantly lower performance for single-threaded apps (that is, the > common case). Maybe more effort should have been put in at that time to > improve performance, but that didn't happen. Much more water has gone under > the bridge at this point, so extracting the GIL from the core would be > correspondingly more difficult. > Given the effort that GIL-removal would take, I'm beginning to wonder if PyPy doesn't offer a better way forward than CPython, in terms of execution speed improvements returned per developer-hour.
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