Re: [pygccxml-development] gil_guard_t example ?

[Roman Y. <rom...@gm...>]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Damien Fagnou
<dam...@mo...> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> some of the member function that we bind can potentially take some time
> , and we are looking to a way to
> release the GIL during there execution .
>
> looking on the web I see that py++ as some things in place for that :
> gil_guard_t
> and I found couple of project using that , but I am still a little
> confuse on how to use it .

gil_guard_t is used for completely other purposes.

If you have algorithm, written in C++, which invokes code written in
Python, than you have to lock GIL. This is exactly what gil_guard_t
does.

Not the opposite.

> is there an example somewhere on how to best use it ?

No

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Roman Yakovenko
C++ Python language binding
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