Status of Python threading support (GIL removal)?

[Stefan Behnel]

Jure Erznožnik wrote:
> See here for introduction:
> http://groups.google.si/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/370f8a1747f0fb91
> 
> Digging through my problem, I discovered Python isn't exactly thread
> safe and to solve the issue, there's this Global Interpreter Lock
> (GIL) in place.
> Effectively, this causes the interpreter to utilize one core when
> threading is not used and .95 of a core when threading is utilized.

You might want to read about "The Problem with Threads":

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf

and then decide to switch to an appropriate concurrency model for your use
case.

Stefan