[Baypiggies] Guido's Blog: It isn't Easy to Remove the GIL

[Guido van Rossum]

On 9/14/07, Andy Wiggin <andywiggin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm sorry, but this attitude just really pisses me off. Python is the
> > work of many people. If you want something to happen, make it happen.
> > Don't wait for someone else to solve your problem for you.
>
> I think it's a point well taken. It doesn't help the situation to
> express this disappointment.
>
> I do think that running single-threaded on the commodity machines of
> the near future will be a handicap for any program, and running one
> process per core is not going to work too well either (unless you're
> IO-bound), so the GIL might limit where and when one can use pure
> Python (or at least the CPython VM) as a solution. Hence my
> disappointment, as I'd use Python everywhere if I could.

You haven't really read the blogs, have you? The high-level bit is
that there are no easy solutions. Concurrency is hard, period.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)