On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:15 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > After implementing the aforementioned step 5, you will find that the > performance of everything, including the threaded code, will be quite a bit > worse. Frankly, this is probably the most significant obstacle to have any > kind of GIL-less Python with reasonable performance. > > PyPy would actually make a significantly better basis for this kind of > experimentation, since they *don't* use reference counting for their > memory management. > > Jython may be a better choice. It is all about concurrency. Its dicts are > built on top of Java's ConcurrentHashMap for example. > Jython is kind of boring choice because it does not have a GIL at all (same as IronPython). It might *work* for what you're trying to achieve but GIL-removal is not really that interesting.
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