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Utility for measuring the fraction of time the CPython GIL is held

4 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2017-08-14 · latest 2020-10-11

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  1. I looked into the GIL saturation as measured with gil_load ( https://github.com/chrisjbillington/gil_load ), but perhaps I should have included more numbers here. To me, seeing the GIL held for 40% of time and significant time spent…
    comment by briggers · 2020-10-11 · in Object Detection from 9 FPS to 650 FPS
  2. …a good place to spruik something I made, a Python package for profiling how much the GIL is held: https://github.com/chrisjbillington/gil_load In my experience, the GIL is not held for nearly as high a proportion of the time as people…
    comment by cjbillington · 2017-08-14 · in Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock
  3. …I wrote a tool to measure what proportion of the time the GIL is held in a program: https://github.com/chrisjbillington/gil_load I encourange people to measure what fraction of the time the GIL is actually held in their multithreaded…
    comment by cjbillington · 2017-08-14 · in Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock