robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what about speed. Is it true that IronPython is almost as fast as C-Python > meanwhile? > > When this all is really true, its probably a proof that putting out > LOCK-INC-lock's (on dicts, lists, mutables ...) in CPython to remove > the GIL in future should not be really so expensive as it was teached > in the past :-)
I don't think IronPython uses locks that way. AFAIK it doesn't use reference counts, and relies on user-supplied synchronization to keep stuff like dictionaries safe. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
