[Stackless] Mixing os threads and stackless
Lloyd Weehuizen
lloyd at fusion.net.nz
Wed Apr 26 13:32:47 CEST 2006
Johan Carlsson wrote:
>> I don't *think* you'd get much advantage with this as the python
>> global interpreter lock will block all threads while another is
>> executing so you might as well run a single thread with all your
>> tasklets in it?
> Why would the PGIL block all threads?
Correct me if I'm wrong but afaik the PGIL only allows one thread to be
executing python code ( or C code called from python that hasn't
explicitly released the PGIL ) at any one time?
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