I just killed GIL!!!

Carl Banks pavlovevidence at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 07:41:25 EDT 2008


On Apr 20, 10:57 pm, a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
> In article <b6de5e65-19b9-40b4-b9b9-f4cf0e61b... at l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
> Carl Banks  <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Apr 17, 3:37 am, Jonathan Gardner <jgard... at jonathangardner.net>
> >wrote:
>
> >> Using 100% of the CPU is a bug, not a feature.
>
> >No it isn't.  That idea is borne of the narrowmindedness of people who
> >write server-like network apps.  What's true for web servers isn't
> >true for every application.
>
> Only when you have only one application running on a machine.

Needless pedantry.

"Using 100% of the CPU time a OS allow a process to have is not
necessarily a bug."  Happy?


Carl Banks



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