Avoiding deadlocks in concurrent programming

[Konstantin Veretennicov]

On 22 Jun 2005 17:50:49 -0700, Paul Rubin
<"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> Even on a multiprocessor
> system, CPython (because of the GIL) doesn't allow true parallel
> threads, ... .

Please excuse my ignorance, do you mean that python threads are always
scheduled to run on the same single CPU? Or just that python threads
are often blocked waiting for GIL?

- kv