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

[Michael Hudson]

"Gregory P. Smith" <greg at electricrain.com> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:12:05PM +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:
>> Martin Blais <blais at furius.ca> writes:
>> > http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
>> > The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software
>> > Herb Sutter
>> > March 2005
>> 
>> I was disappointed that that article (hey, it was the only issue of
>> ddj I've ever actually bought! :) didn't consider any concurrency
>> models other than shared memory threading.
>
> Beware.  Multi-core and/or multi-threaded cpus are the only thing the
> high end CPU manufacturers are able to produce today that they can
> still claim to be "faster."  There is a HUGE incentive for them to
> create demand for their design lest it become irrelevant and they be
> forced to sell only low-margin commodity single core hardware.  This
> means we'll see a ton of papers and people paid or coerced into
> suggesting that this is the best thing since time sliced bread.

I'd imagine that the more interesting/easy to deal with concurrency
models can and will be implemented atop shared memory threads.  At
least, for the reasons you give, I hope so :)

Cheers,
mwh

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