The problem Python has with multiple cores and multi-threading, pointed out by Dave Beazley last year (http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf), looks like it will still persist for the next three or four years, at least, on OS X. Incredible but true. I'm presuming that PyLucene also suffers from it, though the interaction with Java threads makes me wonder a bit.
Anyone know whether this is so? And, a follow-up question: if one were to build a version of Python 2.6 with the "newgil" patch in http://bugs.python.org/issue7753 applied, would it break jcc? Bill
