Python un-plugging the Interpreter

[Alex Martelli]

Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

> A long time ago Greg Stein produced a patch that removed the need for
> the GIL, but nobody seemed to want to pay the penalty it extracted in
> speed reduction, so it languished unadopted.

Perhaps the current wave of dual-core and quad-core CPUs in cheap
consumer products would change people's perceptions -- I wonder...


Alex