"andrew cooke" <and...@a....org> wrote:
>The GIL is an implementation detail. I suspect that it could be largely >removed if there was sufficient need. But that still wouldn't make Python >a good language for programming on multiple cores. That's not as big a >deal as you think, because we currently DON'T KNOW what would make a good >language for programming on multiple cores - it's an open topic in the >wider community. Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Occam was the language that should have won the marketing prize, but didn't. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
