On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Peter Portante <peter.a.portante@gmail.com> wrote:
FWIW: We use Python at Tabblo, straddled across Python 2.5.4 and 2.6.5. They work. And they work well. But we make light use of threads (mostly background I/O handling), and heavy use of multiple processes because we can't take advantage of our multi-core systems otherwise.
Isn't this an indication that the GIL is, in fact, not (much of) a problem? I wish those trying to get rid of the GIL well. But it may not be the panacea some folks are hoping for. Multi-threaded programming remains hard (and removing the GIL might actually make it harder). Jython and IronPython don't have a GIL, and I think PyPy may not either. Does anyone have experience with GIL-free programming in one of those? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)