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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