km wrote: > Is there any PEP to introduce true threading features into python's > next version as in java? i mean without having GIL. > when compared to other languages, python is fun to code but i feel its > is lacking behind in threading
Some of the technical problems: - probably breaks compatibility of extensions at the source level in a big way, although this might be handled by SWIG, boost and other code generators - reference counting will have to be synchronized, which means that Python will become slower - removing reference counting and relying on garbage collection alone will break many Python applications (because they rely on files being closed at end of scope etc.) Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
