On 21 June 2015 at 07:42, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> wrote:
tl;dr Let's exploit multiple cores by fixing up subinterpreters, exposing them in Python, and adding a mechanism to safely share objects between them.
This proposal is meant to be a shot over the bow, so to speak. I plan on putting together a more complete PEP some time in the future, with content that is more refined along with references to the appropriate online resources.
Feedback appreciated! Offers to help even more so! :)
For folks interested in more of the background and design trade-offs involved here, with Eric's initial post published, I've now extracted and updated my old answer about the GIL from the Python 3 Q & A page, and turned it into its own article: http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/multicore_python... Cheers, Nick. P.S. The entry for the old Q&A answer is still there, but now redirects to the new article: http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/questions_and_an... -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia