On Sep 2, 5:38 pm, "Eduardo O. Padoan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No.http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=211430 > > Ops, I meant:http://www.artima.com/forums/threaded.jsp?forum=106&thread=211200 > > --http://www.advogato.org/person/eopadoan/ > Bookmarks:http://del.icio.us/edcrypt
"No. We're not changing the CPython implementation much. Getting rid of the GIL would be a massive rewrite of the interpreter because all the internal data structures (and the reference counting operations) would have to be made thread-safe. This was tried once before (in the late '90s by Greg Stein) and the resulting interpreter ran twice as slow." How much faster/slower would Greg Stein's code be on today's processors versus CPython running on the processors of the late 1990's? And if you decide to answer, please add a true/false response to this statement - "CPython in the late 1990's ran too slow". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
