nikhilketkar schrieb: > What are the implications of the Global Interpreter Lock in Python ? > Does this mean that Python threads cannot exploit a dual core > processor and the only advantage of using threads is in that > computation and IO-bound operations can continue in parallel ?
Essentially, yes. That is unless the computation is done in C-code which released the GIL beforehand. But a certain tradeoff is to expected nontheless. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
