Re: [Pyobjc-dev] ObjC GC with PyObjC?

[Jonathan S. <sa...@gm...>]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> I don't agree. There could be advantages for regular python as well, 
> IMHO removing CPython's refcounting is a necessary first step for 
> removing the GIL.  Removing the GIL would definitely be an advantage 
> for general python code, especially because using multiple independent 
> threads of execution is the only way to seriously improve performance 
> on modern hardware because sadly enough the "wait a year and then my 
> single-threaded code is twice as fast"-era is over. Multiprocessing is 
> a cool hack, but isn't a real solution; I have a number of programs 
> that use multiple threads and need shared memory to get fast enough 
> communications (basicly because large objects get transferred between 
> threads).
>
> Ronald
As a curiosity for those who know the internals of Python better than I 
do, is there any reason to believe that most existing python code would 
even "care" which flavor of GC it's running under?


Jonathan 'usually lurking' Saggau