CPython thread starvation

[Paul Rubin]

John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> writes:
>    I know that the CPython thread dispatcher sucks, but I didn't
> realize it sucked that bad.  Is there a preference for running
> threads at the head of the list (like UNIX, circa 1979) or
> something like that?

I think it's left up to the OS thread scheduler, Windows in your case.
See  http://www.dabeaz.com/python/NewGIL.pdf  starting around slide 18.

One idea that comes to mind is putting a periodic interrupt and signal
handler into your main thread, to make sure the GIL gets released every
so often.