Paul Rubin wrote: > 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.
thus there would be crash if 2 threads use the global variables (module.__dict__) of a module? Cannot imagine .. that would would break most reasons for nice python threading. -robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
