On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 20:27:39 +0100, Nicholas Cole wrote: > Swift may yet be good for PyObjC (the python bridge to the various Apple > libraries); it is possible that there is some kind of translation table > that PyObjC can make use of to make its own method names less ugly. > > Of course, I wish they had picked Python rather than inventing their own > language. But Apple put a huge stock in the ability of their libraries > to make full use of multiple cores. The GIL is surely the sticking > point here.
What GIL? Jython has no GIL. IronPython has no GIL. I believe that PyPy has a GIL-less mode, although I may have confabulated that. I don't know whether Nuitka has a GIL, although Cython does, as do CPython and Stackless. The GIL is not a language feature, it is an implementation feature. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
