22 Sep
2007
22 Sep
'07
2:49 a.m.
Greg Ewing writes:
Brian Granger wrote:
One of the difficulties with the actual work of removing the GIL is that it is difficult, grungy work that not many people are interested in funding.
It's not just a matter of hard work -- so far, nobody knows *how* to remove the GIL without a big loss in efficiency. Somebody is going to have to have a flash of insight, and money can't buy that.
They said that about the four-color theorem, too.<wink>