From: Just van Rossum <just@letterror.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 15:01:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: added note about autoGIL
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~784
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=99bc1fccdbb666405fc0bc5338165a490ccc7969;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

added note about autoGIL
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c6639fe8de2f..d29c90ed7d69 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ Windows
 Mac
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+- There's a new module called "autoGIL", which offers a mechanism to
+  automatically release the Global Interpreter Lock when an event loop
+  goes to sleep, allowing other threads to run. It's currently only
+  supported on OSX, in the Mach-O version.
 
 What's New in Python 2.3 beta 1?
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