[Python-Dev] Another 1.6 wish

[Christopher Petrilli]

Andrew M. Kuchling [akuchlin@mems-exchange.org] wrote:
> Barry A. Warsaw writes:
> >We had some discussion a while back about enabling thread support by
> >default, if the underlying OS supports it obviously.  I'd like to see

Yes pretty please!  One of the biggest problems we have in the Zope world
is that for some unknown reason, most of hte Linux RPMs don't have threading
on in them, so people end up having to compile it anyway... while this
is a silly thing, it does create problems, and means that we deal with
a lot of "dumb" problems.

> That reminds me... what about the free threading patches?  Perhaps
> they should be added to the list of issues to consider for 1.6.

My recolection was that unfortunately MOST of the time, they actually
slowed down things because of the number of locks involved...  Guido
can no doubt shed more light onto this, but... there was a reason.

Chris
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