Will multithreading make python less popular?

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"andrew cooke" <andrew at a....org> wrote:


>The GIL is an implementation detail.  I suspect that it could be largely
>removed if there was sufficient need.  But that still wouldn't make Python
>a good language for programming on multiple cores.  That's not as big a
>deal as you think, because we currently DON'T KNOW what would make a good
>language for programming on multiple cores - it's an open topic in the
>wider community.

Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.

Occam was the language that should have won the marketing
prize, but didn't.

- Hendrik