Kill GIL

[Aahz]

In article <868y5t6sal.fsf at guru.mired.org>, Mike Meyer  <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
>
>Here here. I find that threading typically introduces worse problems
>than it purports to solve.

Depends what you're trying to do with threads.  Threads are definitely a
good technique for managing long-running work in a GUI application.
Threads are also good for handling blocking I/O.  Threads can in theory
be useful for computational processing, but Python provides almost no
support for that.
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