Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > 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.
Which virtually all computation-intensive extensions do. Also, note the processing package, which allows you to use a separate process more or less like a thread, thus avoiding GIL issues completely. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
