[Python-3000] Kill GIL?

[Nick Coghlan]

Andre Meyer wrote:
> While I understand the difficulties in removing the GIL and the 
> potential negative effect on single-threaded applications I would very 
> much encourage discussion to seriously consider removing the GIL (maybe 
> optionally) in Py3k. If not, what alternatives would you suggest?

Brett Cannon's sandboxing work (which aims to provide first-class support for 
multiple interpreters in the same process for security reasons) also seems 
like a potentially fruitful approach to distributing processing to multiple cores:
   - use threads to perform blocking I/O in parallel
   - use multiple interpreters to perform Python execution in parallel

Cheers,
Nick.

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