global interpreter lock not working as it should

[anton wilson]

On Tuesday 30 July 2002 09:20 pm, jepler at unpythonic.net wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 July 2002 07:18 pm, brueckd at tbye.com wrote:
> > > Quick tangential question: if there's no blocking of any kind, why are
> > > you using threads, anyway? Off the cuff thinking says this seems like a
> > > misuse of them.
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:48:40PM -0400, anton wilson wrote:
> > For a real-time system. ;) It will work. It would just be nice if they
> > switched exactly every 10 byte codes becuase that means they only use
> > about 10 to 20 milliseconds each.
>
> Realtime?  Really?  So can you tell me what the upper-bound on the runtime
> of
>
>     >>> x = 3
>
> on the hardware you're targeting?
>
> Jeff


Good question. You have any reasons why we should not use python?