[concurrency] Inside the Python GIL

[Jesse Noller]

Really? Is this the worse thing ever? How many of us building heavily
threaded I/O bound applications are truly hampered by this? Yes; this
sucks for CPU bound applications, that's been known since the earth
cooled.

I, and many others, have been using threads in python w/o issue, now
that multiprocessing is in core, when I do run into a limitation, I
simply swap out the imports in many cases.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Pete<pfein at pobox.com> wrote:
> I didn't attend last night's UG, but I saw Dave give a version of this talk
> about a month ago.  I'll second Carl's opinion - this talk is of critical
> importance to anyone using threads in Python.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com>
>> Date: June 12, 2009 10:51:33 AM EDT
>> To: The Chicago Python Users Group <chicago at python.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Chicago] Posted : Video
>>
>> * David Beazley: mind-blowing presentation about how the Python GIL
>> actually works and why it's even worse than most people even imagine.
>> http://blip.tv/file/2232410   http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf
>
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