On Wednesday 20 May 2009 04:32:59 pm Carl Banks wrote: > I wasn't really arguing that locking individual objects was a > significant penalty in computer time, only in programmer time. The > locks on reference counts are what's expensive. > > Also, I'm not using it as an argument against removing the GIL. I > want to remove the GIL. I'm only pointing out that removing the GIL > is not easy, and once it's removed there is a cost.
Ah, allright then. Thanks for the clarification. -- Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie) Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH. http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
