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falcolas on Aug 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock

Indeed, and in that case the GIL is effectively a non-issue (there's no requirement for the GIL to be held by non-python code).

Animats on Aug 14, 2017 [–]

No, no, if you're manipulating Python objects from C code, you have to hold the lock. You can release it only when not doing anything with objects in Python's memory space. Otherwise you get race conditions and intermittent crashes.

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