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Boxiang Sun
cython
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Stefan Behnel
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docs: clarify a bit more what it means to acquire/release the GIL
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Cython provides facilities for acquiring and releasing the
Cython provides facilities for acquiring and releasing the
`Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) <http://docs.python.org/dev/glossary.html#term-global-interpreter-lock>`_.
`Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) <http://docs.python.org/dev/glossary.html#term-global-interpreter-lock>`_.
This may be useful when calling into (external C) code that may block, or when wanting to use Python from a
This may be useful when calling from multi-threaded code into
C callback.
(external C) code that may block, or when wanting to use Python
from a (native) C thread callback. Releasing the GIL should
obviously only be done for thread-safe code or for code that
uses other means of protection against race conditions and
concurrency issues.
Note that acquiring the GIL is a blocking thread-synchronising
operation, and therefore potentially costly. It might not be
worth releasing the GIL for minor calculations. Usually, I/O
operations and substantial computations in parallel code will
benefit from it.
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