Instagram has introduced Immortal Objects – PEP-683 – to Python. Now, objects can bypass reference count checks and live throughout the entire execution of the runtime, unlocking exciting avenues f…
Contributing immortal objects into Python introduces true immutability guarantees for the first time ever. It helps objects bypass both reference counts and garbage collection checks. This means that we can now share immortal objects across threads without requiring the GIL to provide thread safety.
This is actually really cool. In general, if you can make things immutable or avoid state, then that will help you structure things concurrently. With immortal objects you now can guarantee that immutability without costly locks. It will be interesting to see what the final round of benchmarks are when this is fully implemented.
This is actually really cool. In general, if you can make things immutable or avoid state, then that will help you structure things concurrently. With immortal objects you now can guarantee that immutability without costly locks. It will be interesting to see what the final round of benchmarks are when this is fully implemented.