On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:14:33 -0800, John Nagle wrote: > I won't even get into the appalling mess around the Global Interpreter > Lock.
You know full well that IronPython and Jython don't have a GIL. If the GIL was as harmful as you repeatedly tell us, why haven't you, and everyone else, migrated to IronPython and Jython? Oh yeah, maybe it's because CPython, even with the GIL, is significantly faster than the two implementations without a GIL. Go figure. But never mind the facts, spreading the FUD about Python is much more fun. Hey, I hear that Python 3 is tanking too, and millions of Python developers are rushing, rushing I say, to port their code to Go. Or was it Ruby? Possibly Lua. Maybe VBScript. > This has forced the use of subprocesses where, in other > languages, you'd use threads. Only if by "forced" you mean "not forced at all". http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html http://www.stackless.com/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet/ http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ http://www.gevent.org/ http://code.google.com/p/cogen/ http://www.kamaelia.org/Home http://code.google.com/p/syncless/ http://opensource.hyves.org/concurrence/ http://www.tornadoweb.org/ http://docs.python.org/library/asyncore.html http://pyro.sourceforge.net/ http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
