Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b

2011-04-20 Thread Chris H
On 4/19/11 3:48 AM, Lamont Nelson wrote: > 1. Are you sure you want to use python because threading is not good due to the Global Lock (GIL)? Is this really an issue for multi-threaded web services as seems to be indicated by the articles from a Google search? If not, how do you avoid this

Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b

2011-04-15 Thread Chris H
On 4/15/11 1:03 PM, Tim Wintle wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 12:33 -0400, Chris H wrote: 1. Are you sure you want to use python because threading is not good due to the Global Lock (GIL)? Is this really an issue for multi-threaded web services as seems to be indicated by the articles from a

Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b

2011-04-15 Thread Chris H
So I'm in a startup where we are considering using python as our primary development language for all the wonderful reasons you would expect. However, I've had a couple of things come up from mentors and other developers that is causing me to rethink whether python is the right choice. I hope