multithreading and shared dictionary

[Aahz]

In article <1152373251.931674.239500 at p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
Istvan Albert <istvan.albert at gmail.com> wrote:
>Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
>>
>> It's not in Jython nor IronPython and maybe not forever in
>> CPython.
>
>Whether or not a feature is present in Jython or IronPython does not
>seem relevant, after all these languages emulate Python, one could
>argue that it only means that this emulation is incomplete.  Same for
>changes way out in the future that may or may not materialize. 

The GIL is *NOT* part of the Python language spec; it is considered a
CPython implementation detail.  Other implementations are free to use
other mechanisms -- and they do.
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