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A way forward in parallelising dynamic languages
2014
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems PLE - ICOOOLPS '14
Dynamic languages became very popular in recent years. At some point, the need for concurrency arose, and many of them made the choice to use a single global interpreter lock (GIL) to synchronise the interpreter in a multithreading scenario. This choice, however, makes it impossible to actually run code in parallel. Here we want to compare different approaches to replacing the GIL with a technology that allows parallel execution. We look at fine-grained locking, shared-nothing, and
doi:10.1145/2633301.2633305
dblp:conf/ecoop/MeierR14
fatcat:cnx6dus3orgc5ifm5lnmoi5xhq