decorators vs GIL

[Jarek Zgoda]

G. S. Hayes <sjdevnull at yahoo.com> pisze:

>> What really hurts is that I can't honestly tell Java programmers that
> 
>> Python  is a slam dunk compared to Java & the JVM.  Java has no GIL,
> 
> 
> 
> Java has drunk the threads Kool-Aid, and Java programmers are very
> likely to be thread-crazy because of the lack of a select equivalent
> (until recently) and the lack of good access to processes via fork or
> similar.  Luckily, it's usually pretty easy to convince people of the
> benefits of NOT overusing threads once they've made that mistake once.

Try GUI programming without using threads.

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Jarek Zgoda
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