[pylucene-dev] simple threading segfault demo

[Andi Vajda]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Ofer Nave wrote:

> What if I had subclassed the Query or Similarity class?  Wouldn't the Java
> searcher constantly be calling back into my Python code while executing the
> query, thereby dramatically reducing the portion of time that is fully
> concurrent?

Indeed, anytime you cross from Python -> C++/Java the GIL is released.
And anytime you cross back C++/Java -> Python because the call returns or 
calls back into Python, the GIL is reacquired.

Andi..