Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector
by coldtea on Friday August 27, 2021 @05:17AM
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>Python still doesn't have "proper" multithreading because RC is too slow.
RC speed is not even close to the reason Python doesn't have proper multithreading.
(The GIL, and API/ABI guarantees to third party C-based extensions making it difficult to remove it, is more like it. The GIL was added to aid in RC atomicity - but it's not the speed of RC that's the issue).
RC speed is not even close to the reason Python doesn't have proper multithreading.
(The GIL, and API/ABI guarantees to third party C-based extensions making it difficult to remove it, is more like it. The GIL was added to aid in RC atomicity - but it's not the speed of RC that's the issue).