Kill GIL

[Mike Meyer]

aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:

> 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.
> Threads are also good for handling blocking I/O.

Actually, this is one of the cases I was talking about. I find it
saner to convert to non-blocking I/O and use select() for
synchronization. That solves the problem, without introducing any of
the headaches related to shared access and locking that come with
threads.

        <mike
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