The Future of Python Threading

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Justin T. wrote:

> The detrimental effects of the GIL have been discussed several
> times and nobody has ever done anything about it. 

Also it has been discussed that dropping the GIL concept requires
very fine locking mechanisms inside the interpreter to keep data
serialised. The overhead managing those fine ones properly is not
at all negligible, and I think it's more than managing GIL.

> The truth is that the future (and present reality) of almost every
> form of computing is multi-core,

Is it? 8)

The question is: If it really was, how much of useful performance
gain would you get?

Regards,


Björn

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