Reading about this, yes, but there is hope: http://morepypy.blogspot.se/2012/08/multicore-programming-in-pypy-and.html
Jonathan On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com>wrote: > But as Konrad pointed out, the python VM (and the pypy vm) offers nothing > that JVMs don't support better. Everything from concurrency to the GC is > implemented better in the JVM. > > Timothy > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Jonathan Fischer Friberg < > odysso...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Konrad Hinsen < >> googlegro...@khinsen.fastmail.net> wrote: >> >>> --On 29 avril 2013 09:09:27 -0400 Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Apr 29, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Fischer Friberg wrote: >>>> >>>> You could always give >>>> https://github.com/halgari/**clojure-py<https://github.com/halgari/clojure-py>a >>>> spin, >>>>> might not be so easy to get everything working though. :) >>>>> >>>> >>>> It might be worth it, if we could still write in Clojure and get good >>>> multicore utilization and good performance overall for our application. >>>> >>>> Is there evidence that code written/run this way will perform >>>> particularly well? >>>> >>> >>> No. The Python VM has a global interpreter lock that prevents parallel >>> execution of Python bytecode. If you want to parallel processing in Python >>> (more precisely, the CPython implementation), you must either port >>> CPU-intensive stuff to C or Cython, or run multiple communicating CPython >>> instances. >>> >>> Konrad. >> >> >> clojure-py code should run on pypy, which is much more promising; >> http://pypy.org/ >> The support for http://www.stackless.com/ is especially interesting. >> >> Jonathan >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > > -- > “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking > zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C > programs.” > (Robert Firth) > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
