Status of Python threading support (GIL removal)?

Jeremy Sanders jeremy+complangpython at jeremysanders.net
Sun Jun 21 07:48:19 EDT 2009


Jesse Noller wrote:

> Sorry, you're incorrect. I/O Bound threads do in fact, take 
advantage
> of multiple cores.

I don't know whether anyone else brought this up, but it looks 
like Python has problems with even this form of threading

http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf

It's certainly a very interesting read if you're interested in 
this subject.

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Jeremy Sanders
http://www.jeremysanders.net/




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