Alex Martelli wrote: > 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...
It would be nice to see the GIL banished, but the impression I get from my (limited) acquaintance with the Python 3.0 world leads me to believe that its banishment is *not* being treated as a priority. I can understand that it would be a major engineering effort, but I should have thought the returns on multi-core architectures would have been worth considering. It's going to be interesting to see whether perceptions in the CPython world change as PyPy and IronPython progress. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden Recent Ramblings http://holdenweb.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
