Re:A Python Interpreter Written in Rust
by pdonis on Sunday February 03, 2019 @12:00AM
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> my impression wasn't that the GIL meant just "no data races" but that it also meant "data can't change out from under you in the middle of executing a statement".
That's not quite what the GIL guarantees. It guarantees that data can't change out from under you in the middle of executing a bytecode. But many Python statements (and expressions) do not correspond to single bytecodes.
That's not quite what the GIL guarantees. It guarantees that data can't change out from under you in the middle of executing a bytecode. But many Python statements (and expressions) do not correspond to single bytecodes.