Paul Rubin wrote: > Bryan Olson <fakeaddr...@nowhere.org> writes: >> I'm a fan of lock-free data structure and software transactional >> memory, but I'm also a realist. Heck, I'm one of this group's >> outspoken advocates of threaded architectures. Theoretical >> breakthroughs will happen, but in real world of today, threads are >> great but GIL-less Python is a loser. > > GIL-less Python (i.e. Jython) already exists and beats CPython in > performance a lot of the time, including on single processors. > Whether the GIL can be eliminated from CPython without massive rework > to every extension module ever written is a separate question, of > course. Jython can be viewed a proof of concept.
<nods>. I think probably the GIL will never be extracted successfully. Also IronPython and PyPy (though the latter only in concept for now, I believe). Even Guido admits that CPython doesn't necessarily represent the dominant future strain ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
