Hi, Rushen! I'm also new to using Python but from what I've found, GIL is very intentional decision. It is one of the features of Python which make it so powerful. I believe that if it didn't have GIL, Python wouldn't be half near where it is now (regarding it as a language, community, platform support, popularity, ...).
The most important question is do you really need multi-threading for what you do? There is lot of software which doesn't require mt at all, or could be written without mt. Also, if you haven't learnt C++ or Java yet, mt is not something you should be worried about in the near future - there are lot of other, more important things, you need to learn before opening door mt hell :-) Best, Aleksa On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:34, <rushen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody, > I am an engineer. I am trying to improve my software development > abilities. I have started programming with ruby. I like it very much > but i want to add something more. According to my previous research i > have designed a learning path for myself. It's like something below. > 1. Ruby (Mastering as much as possible) > 2. Python (Mastering as much as possible) > 3. Basic C++ or Basic Java > And the story begins here. As i search on the net, I have found that > because of the natural characteristics of python such as GIL, we are > not able to write multi threaded programs. Oooops, in a kind of time > with lots of cpu cores and we are not able to write multi threaded > programs. That is out of fashion. How a such powerful language doesn't > support multi threading. That is a big minus for python. But there is > something interesting, something like multi processing. But is it a > real alternative for multi threading. As i searched it is not, it > requires heavy hardware requirements (lots of memory, lots of cpu > power). Also it is not easy to implement, too much extra code... > > After all of that, i start to think about omiting python from my > carrier path and directly choosing c++ or java. But i know google or > youtube uses python very much. How can they choose a language which > will be killed by multi threading a time in near future. I like python > and its syntax, its flexibility. > > What do you think about multi threading and its effect on python. Why > does python have such a break and what is the fix. Is it worth to make > investment of time and money to a language it can not take advantage > of multi cores? > > Thank you... > Rushen > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Aleksa Todorovic - Lead Programmer Eipix Entertainment http://www.eipix.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
