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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/4/11 3:51 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 09:39 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/3/11 3:02 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>>> The PyPy JIT is clearly a "big win".  I am sure Armin will come up with
>>> more stuff :-)
>>
>> Do they do anything about the GIL?
>
> Soon.  Having failed to convince Guido he had to remove the GIL from
> CPython, my message has been taken up by the PyPy folk and they are
> looking at using STM as a technique to be able to remove the GIL.  Not
> sure whether this will hit performance.  The multiprocessing package
> will need a severe rewrite if STM works to replace the GIL.

What's the plan with doing I/O and other irreversible actions during STM 
transactions then?

Andrei