[Python-Dev] "Fixing" the new GIL

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> As for the argument that an application with cpu intensive work being
> driven by the IO itself will work itself out...  No it won't, it can
> get into beat patterns where it is handling requests quite rapidly up
> until one that causes a long computation to start comes in.  At that
> point it'll stop performing well on other requests for as long (it
> could be a significant amount of time) as the cpu intensive request
> threads are running.  That is not a graceful degration in serving
> capacity / latency as one would normally expect.  It is a sudden drop
> off.

Why do you say that? The other threads continue to be served - and
Python couldn't use more than one CPU, anyway. Can you demonstrate that
in an example?

Regards,
Martin