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Yes, leading to C extensions that are not thread safe and so can't be used in multi-threaded code at all. An example I'm familiar with is pylibmc.
by retrogradeorbit 10y ago
Yes, leading to C extensions that are not thread safe and so can't be used in multi-threaded code at all. An example I'm familiar with is pylibmc.
- d0mine 10y agoWrong. GIL does NOT necessarily make your Python/C code thread-safe and in reverse releasing GIL does not prevent you from writing a thread-safe code.