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> Multithreading Does it have a global interpreter lock (GIL)?

• pansa2 5y ago
  > Each thread has its own Janet heap, which means threads behave more like processes that communicate by message passing. https://janet-lang.org/docs/threads.html https://janet-lang.org/docs/threads.html Janet doesn’t seem to have shared-memory multithreading. Each thread runs independently, so a GIL should not be necessary.
  • saikyun 5y ago
    Though you can share memory manually, i.e. in C but access it from Janet.
    • ahungry 5y ago
      I wrote similar here: https://github.com/ahungry/janet-pobox https://github.com/ahungry/janet-pobox although it probably needs updates to work with 1.18 and above.
      • saikyun 5y ago
        Oh, that's really cool. :) Thanks for mentioning it.