[clpython-devel] Will CLPython have a GIL?

[Willem Broekema]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Anand Patil
<anand.prabhakar.patil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, it will be great to have a fast, SMP-capable Python implementation
> someday. Another question: are you planning on providing a Python-C API, so
> that packages with compiled extensions can run on CLPython?

No, there are no plans for implementing the C API. Actually I doubt it
is practically possible, given the differences in e.g. object
representation, garbage collection and exception handling.

- Willem