Global Interpreter Lock

[Fredrik Lundh]

Amos Gingerich wrote:
> I've noticed some discussion of the global interpreter lock over on the
> zope mailing list.  I fairly new to both python and zope but it seemed
> that was a core "feature" that could impact performance.  Could someone
> in the know give me high level understanding of what this is all about.

how about reading the fine manual?
http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/threads.html

(found in 10 seconds via the fine search engine)

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