Re: Please help with Threading

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Date	2013-05-20 19:04 +0100
Subject	Re: Please help with Threading
From	Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com>
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I didn't know that.
On 20 May 2013 12:10, "Dave Angel" <davea@davea.name> wrote:
> Are you making function calls, using system libraries, or creating or
deleting any objects?  All of these use the GIL because they use common
data structures shared among all threads.  At the lowest level, creating an
object requires locked access to the memory manager.
>
>
> Don't forget, the GIL gets used much more for Python internals than it
does for the visible stuff.

I did not know that. It's both interesting and somehow obvious, although I
didn't know it yet.

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