Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > [Aside: The thing that people fail to understand is that the GIL is not in > fact something which *prevents* multi-tasking, but it *enables* cooperative > multi-tasking: > > http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf > > although that's not to say that there aren't some horrible performance > characteristics of the GIL. David Beazley has identified issues with the > GIL which suggest room for improving the GIL and avoiding "GIL battles" > which are responsible for much of the overhead of CPU-bound threads. Any C > programmers who want to hack on the interpreter core?]
Didn't the "new GIL" fix some of these problems? Sturla -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
