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Author pitrou
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Date 2010-04-26.09:36:26
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Dave,

> In the current implementation, threads perform a timed-wait on a
> condition variable.  If time expires and no thread switches have
> occurred, the currently running thread is forced to drop the GIL.

A problem, as far as I can see, is that these timeout sleeps run
periodically, regardless of the actual times at which thread switching
takes place. I'm not sure it's really an issue but it's a bit of a
departure from the "ideal" behaviour of the switching interval.

> A new attribute 'cpu_bound' is added to the PyThreadState structure.
> If a thread is ever forced to drop the GIL, this attribute is simply
> set True (1).  If a thread gives up the GIL voluntarily, it is set
> back to False (0).  This attribute is used to set up simple scheduling
> (described next).

Ok, so it's not very different, at least in principle, from what
gilinter.patch does, right?
(and actually, the benchmark results look very similar)
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2010-04-26 09:36:28pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, loewis, jhylton, gregory.p.smith, jcea, movement, larry, eric.smith, kevinwatters, tarek, djc, karld, carljm, coderanger, durin42, eric.araujo, nirai, alex, andrix, konryd, brian.curtin, flox, DazWorrall, salgado, cool-RR, rh0dium, rcohen, dabeaz, mahmoudimus, aconrad, ysj.ray, neologix, thouis
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