[Python-ideas] Python 3000 TIOBE -3%

[Serhiy Storchaka]

09.02.12 20:57, Sturla Molden написав(ла):
> 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.

What about os.fork()?