GIL in the new glossary
Jp Calderone
exarkun at intarweb.us
Sat Oct 4 18:23:53 EDT 2003
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:22:21PM +0100, John J. Lee wrote:
> lcaamano at mindspring.com (Luis P Caamano) writes:
> [...]
> > Why not have a python_smp interpreter that allows parallelism
> > (and scalability) on SMP machines and another for uniprocessor
> > machines where paralellism is not possible?
> [...]
>
> Just noticed this
>
> http://www.python.org/doc/faq/library.html#can-t-we-get-rid-of-the-global-interpreter-lock
>
Well thats easy to fix. Just don't have *any* locks in the SMP version...
Jp
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