a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > CPython's "primitive" storage management has a lot to do with the > simplicity of interfacing CPython with external libraries. Any solution > that proposes to get rid of the GIL needs to address that.
This, I don't understand. Other languages like Lisp and Java and Haskell have foreign function interfaces that easier to program than Python's, -and- they don't use reference counts. There's usually some primitive to protect objects from garbage collection while the foreign function is using them, etc. The Java Native Interface (JNI) and the Haskell FFI are pretty well documented. The Emacs Lisp system is not too hard to figure out from examining the source code, etc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
