[Python-ideas] Python 3000 TIOBE -3%

[Eric Snow]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no> wrote:
>> Yes or no... Python is used for parallel computing on the biggest
>> supercomputers, monsters like Cray and IBM blue genes with tens of thousands
>> of CPUs. But what really fails to scale is the Python module loader! For
>> example it can take hours to "import numpy" for 30,000 Python processes on a
>> blue gene. And yes, nobody would consider to use Java for such systems, even
>> though Java does not have a GIL (well, theads do no matter that much on a
>> cluster with distributed memory anyway). It is Python, C and Fortran that
>> are popular. But that really disproves that Python sucks for big
>> concurrency, except perhaps for the module loader.
>
>
> I'm curious about the module loader problem. Did someone ever analyze the
> cause and come up with a fix? Is it the import lock? Maybe it's something
> for the bug tracker.

+1

-eric