On 2009-09-07, Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, my mistake, I misread the original - using multiple > Python processes does indeed have a GIL per process. I was > referring to the 'multiple interpreters in one process' > feature of Python which is largely deprecated, but if used, > all 'interpreters' share the same GIL.
Oh yea, i had forgotten you could do that. I can see how one could have interpretted the "multiple instances" references to mean multiple interpreter instances within a process. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list