In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: >> >> It's not in Jython nor IronPython and maybe not forever in >> CPython. > >Whether or not a feature is present in Jython or IronPython does not >seem relevant, after all these languages emulate Python, one could >argue that it only means that this emulation is incomplete. Same for >changes way out in the future that may or may not materialize.
The GIL is *NOT* part of the Python language spec; it is considered a CPython implementation detail. Other implementations are free to use other mechanisms -- and they do. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped right there." --Steve Gonedes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
