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[Brad Anderson]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <
SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
One of the PyPy guys briefly answers this in the comments of this article
on the subject of PyPy and removal of the GIL.
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/06/global-interpreter-lock-or-how-to-kill.html
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