Parallelization on muli-CPU hardware?

[Aahz]

In article <1glatga.8upk9brifr2qN%aleaxit at yahoo.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>>
>> The problem is that CPython doesn't have thread-local storage.
>
>In 2.4 it does -- see threading.local documentation at
><http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-threading.html> (and
>even better, the docstring of the new _threading_local module).

IIUC, that's not thread-local storage in the sense that I'm using the
term (and which I believe is standard usage).  Values created with
thread-local storage module are still allocated on the heap, and it's
still possible to use introspection to access thread-local data in
another thread.

Don't get me wrong; I think it's a brilliant addition to Python.
Unfortunately, it doesn't help with the real issues with making the
Python core free-threaded (or anything more fine-grained than the GIL).
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