Getting around the GIL with POSH

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Aug 6 09:56:18 EDT 2004


Jon Perez <jbperez808 at wahoo.com> writes:

> Is anyone out there using POSH and is it reliable enough for
> production use?  Any plans to incorporate it into the Python
> distribution?

Well, I think it currently only works on x86, which is a bit of a
bind (I may be out of date).

Cheers,
mwh

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