Threaded server in python!?

[Gerhard Häring]

* Achim Domma <achim.domma at syynx.de> [2003-01-03 22:10 +0100]:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to implement my own http chat server. As far as I know pythons
> threads are not very efficient due to the global interpreter lock.
> [...]

The GIL just means that Python won't take much advantage of more than
one processors (i. e. SMP machines). C extensions can release the GIL
for certain safe operations, though (ones that don't touch any Python
data structures).

Gerhard
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