Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > And at that level, you aren't going to write your app in Python anyway, > and not because of the GIL. (These microcontrollers are unlikely to have > multiple cores -- why the hell does your microwave oven need two cores?)
http://greenarrays.com ;-) > It seems to me that those who claim that the GIL is a serious barrier to > Python's use in the enterprise are mostly cargo-cult programmers, I would say, it puts a crimp into Python's versatility but there are still lots of areas where it's not a serious issue. A real compiler (PyPy) will help Python performance far more than multi-core currently can. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list