[Python-Dev] The endless GIL debate: why not remove thread support instead?

[Ivan Krstić]

On Dec 13, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> They were originally invented in 1965, on Multics (1970) they were  
> used to perform compilation in the background. When Unix came along,  
> it *added* address space separation, introducing what is now known  
> as processes.


Yes, and a lot of the subsequent interest in threads came due to the  
historically debilitating overhead of fork() on some important Unices,  
notably Solaris.

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