"Michael Bacarella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > It's pretty uncommon. There are relatively few CPU bound tasks that | > are a) highly parallel and b) can't be easily scaled between | > processes. Python is not (by itself) an especially good tool for those | > tasks. | | Is there any reason for this besides economics?
If by 'this' you mean the global interpreter lock, yes, there are good technical reasons. All attempts so far to remove it have resulted in an interpeter that is substantially slower on a single processor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
