[Pyrex] Pyrex and the GIL

[Simon Burton]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:36:14 +1200
Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> 
> John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> 
> > Would kind of be nice if pyrex added some attribute and handled the GIL
> > itself:
> > 
> > cdef GIL my_callback():
> > 
> > or 
> > 
> > cdef callback my_callback():
> 
> I have some ideas along these lines, although
> I need to think about it some more.

And inversely: some syntax to indicate that a particular c function
call can release the GIL. This could be either in the cdef extern declaration
of the c function, or where it is called (both?)

Simon.

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