On Nov 8, 2:09 pm, "Michael Bacarella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In our company we are looking for one language to be used as default > > language. So far Python looks like a good choice (slacking behind > > Java). A few requirements that the language should be able cope with > > are: > > How do you feel about multithreading support? > > A multithreaded application in Python will only use a single CPU on > multi-CPU machines due to big interpreter lock, whereas the "right thing" > happens in Java.
Note that this is untrue for many common uses of threading (e.g. using threads to wait on network connections, or calling out to most common compute-intensive C extensions), where the GIL is released and multiple CPUs are used just fine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
