On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 January 2013 02:33, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Lol, well that's why I'm asking. I don't see how they can do it >> without considerable difficulties. > > What do you want the GIL for across machines? The normal purpose of > the GIL is to preserve the integrity of Python's in-memory data > structures. These are only accessible within one process so what good > would a multi-process GIL be?
Excuse me, I actually thought you knew what you were talking about. A Beowulf cluster, by it's nature, is across many-machines. Now you can't have a GIL and a single python program across many-machines without some tricks. I'm just wondering how (or if) they solved that problem.... mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
