I just killed GIL!!!

Jonathan Gardner jgardner at jonathangardner.net
Thu Apr 17 03:37:47 EDT 2008


On Apr 16, 5:37 pm, sturlamolden <sturlamol... at yahoo.no> wrote:
> One single process of CPython is using all the cpu power
> of my dual-core laptop.

Are they stuck in a while loop, waiting for their resource to become
available?

Using 100% of the CPU is a bug, not a feature. If you can't rewrite
your algorithm to be disk or network bound, next optimization step is
C.



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