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Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing?

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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:

> [Aside: The thing that people fail to understand is that the GIL is not in
> fact something which *prevents* multi-tasking, but it *enables* cooperative
> multi-tasking:
> 
> http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf
> 
> although that's not to say that there aren't some horrible performance
> characteristics of the GIL. David Beazley has identified issues with the
> GIL which suggest room for improving the GIL and avoiding "GIL battles"
> which are responsible for much of the overhead of CPU-bound threads. Any C
> programmers who want to hack on the interpreter core?]

Didn't the "new GIL" fix some of these problems?


Sturla

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Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-04 09:26 +1000
  Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-04 11:02 +1000
    Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-04 12:22 +1000
      Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-04 15:48 +1000
        Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-04 15:57 +1000
        Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> - 2014-10-04 17:51 +0000
    Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-10-04 16:20 -0400
    Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2014-10-05 20:23 +0100
      Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-06 07:20 +0000
  Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? bryanjugglercryptographer@yahoo.com - 2014-10-06 09:21 -0700
    Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-07 03:43 +1100
      Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? bryanjugglercryptographer@yahoo.com - 2014-10-08 10:28 -0700
        Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-10-09 14:39 -0700
        Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-10 08:42 +1100
        Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2014-10-10 08:09 +0200
        Re: "High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-10 17:52 +1100

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