Will Python 3.0 remove the global interpreter lock (GIL)

king kikapu aboudouvas at panafonet.gr
Mon Sep 3 05:03:00 EDT 2007


On Sep 3, 9:15 am, Michele Simionato <michele.simion... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2:21 am, llothar <llot... at web.de> wrote:
>

> My personal opinion (and I am not the only one in the Python
> community) is that
> if you want to scale the way to go is to use processes, not threads,
> so removing the GIL would be a waste of effort anyway.
> Look at the 'processing' module in PyPI.
>
>  Michele Simionato


I second that. You may also look here,
http://www.parallelpython.com/

I tested it and work as expected. You can see all your processing-
cores work nicely and balanced.




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