Aahz wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Carl Banks <[email protected]> wrote: >> I wish Pythonistas would be more willing to acknowledge the (few) >> drawbacks of the language (or implementation, in this case) instead of >> all this rationalization. > > Please provide more evidence that Pythonistas are unwilling to > acknowledge the drawbacks of the GIL. I think you're just spreading FUD. > The problem is that discussions about the GIL almost invariably include > false statements about the GIL, and I'm certainly not going to hamper my > writing to always include the caveats about GIL drawbacks while > correcting the wrong information.
Aahz, my magic pixie dust bag is empty. Do you have some spare dust to remove the cursed GIL all alone? :p Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
