global interpreter lock

Bryan Olson fakeaddress at nowhere.org
Fri Aug 19 11:37:41 EDT 2005


km wrote:
 > Hi all,
 >
 > is true parallelism possible in python ? or atleast in the
 > coming versions ? is global interpreter lock a bane in this
 > context ?

No; maybe; and currently, not usually.

On a uniprocessor system, the GIL is no problem. On multi-
processor/core systems, it's a big loser.


-- 
--Bryan



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