global interpreter lock

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Mike Meyer wrote:
> Bryan Olson <fakeaddress at nowhere.org> writes:
> > The issue here is whether to confuse reality with what one might
> > wish reality to be.
>
> Let's see. Reality is that writing correct programs is hard. Writing
> correct programs that use concurrency is even harder, because of the
> exponential explosion of the order that operations can happen
> in.

And dont forget:
Writing concurrent programs without protected memory between execution
contexts is even harder than with it.