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Remove GIL to avoid deadlocks when calling CEF functions  #102

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In the pxd file, function needs to be defined as "nogil". In the pyx file the call must use the "with nogil" statement.

From Cython's documentation:

Note that acquiring the GIL is a blocking thread-synchronising operation, and therefore potentially costly. It might not be worth releasing the GIL for minor calculations. Usually, I/O operations and substantial computations in parallel code will benefit from it.

Revision ec1ce78 removes the GIL lock from the following calls: Initialize(), Shutdown(), CreateBrowserSync(), SetOsModalLoop(), QuitMessageLoop(), CefExecuteProcess().

Keeping this issue Open, as there still might be some functions from which the GIL lock should also be removed.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by czarek.t...@gmail.com on 8 Jan 2014 at 11:15

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