[Python-Dev] GIL, Python 3, and MP vs. UP

[Terry Reedy]

"Bill Janssen" <janssen at parc.com> wrote in message 
news:05Sep22.141518pdt."58617"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com...
> Sokolov Jura writes:
>> It is so simple to write application server in Python.
>> It is so difficult to make it scallable in CPython.
>> CPython will not be wide popular without real multithreading.
>
> He's right.

I think the post is at least somewhat wrong on both technical and 
topicalness levels.

On a technical level, the second statement seems wrong as an absolute 
statement.  Phillip Eby claims that *some* application servers are easily 
scaled even if others are not.  I suspect this is more likely to be the 
truth.  In any case, the statement conveys no new technical information 
while to me it has the form and emotional load of a flame.

The third statement is an opinion about the indefinite future which is 
neither right nor wrong as it stands.  To ever judge it so, we need an 
operational definition of 'wide popular' to guide measurement.  By some 
standards, Python is already widely popular.  By others, it never will be.

Guido already said that he will consider a high-quality maintainable 'real 
threading' patch that proves his scepticism wrong and that is neutral to 
beneficial to most all users, so I see little point in further flogging the 
issue, at least on this forum.

Terry J. Reedy