Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> A long time ago Greg Stein produced a patch that removed the need for
> the GIL, but nobody seemed to want to pay the penalty it extracted in
> speed reduction, so it languished unadopted.

Perhaps the current wave of dual-core and quad-core CPUs in cheap
consumer products would change people's perceptions -- I wonder...


Alex
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