Parallelization on muli-CPU hardware?

[Aahz]

In article <ck0emf$1ar$1 at s5.feed.news.oleane.net>,
Sam G. <nospam:samuelgay at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>But if only one thread per interpreter could run at a time, in multicore 
>two (or more) thread can't run at the same time. In performance the 
>result is almost the same : if the server has nothing else than running 
>python (not real i know, just to be simple), only one core work...
>
>Not very good for Zope, as multicore are for the near future...

Depends where it bogs down.  If it's CPU, it may be an issue.  If it's
I/O, CPython already releases the GIL and Zope benefits.
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