I just killed GIL!!!

[Daniel Fetchinson]

> Hello Guys...
>
> I just had one moment of exceptional clarity, during which realized
> how I could get the GIL out of my way... It's so simple, I cannot help
> wondering why nobody has thought of it before. Duh! Now I am going to
> sit and and marvel at my creation for a while, and then go to bed
> (it's past 2:30 a.m.) Tomorrow I will contemplate whether to sell this
> little secret for big bucks, give it away for free, or just keep it to
> myself... :-)
>
> Now you are probably thinking I reinvented the gunpowder, and are
> running multiple processes. Not so. I am not running parallel
> processes, like parallel python or the processing module in cheese
> shop. I am running multiple THREADS. In fact, I am just using
> threading.Thread. The source code is pure Python, so there is no C
> magic, and I only used the stuff that's already there in the standard
> library. So, I just made CPython do what everyone claim to be
> impossible. One single process of CPython is using all the cpu power
> of my dual-core laptop.



If I were you I would keep it a secret until a Hollywood producer
offers big bucks for the film rights.