[Python-ideas] Python 3000 TIOBE -3%
Sturla Molden
sturla at molden.no
Fri Feb 10 20:54:35 CET 2012
On 10.02.2012 19:36, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> By the time we 100 core CPUs, we'll be measuring RAM in TB, so that
> shouldn't be a problem ;-)
Actually, Python is already great for those. They are called GPUs, and
OpenCL is all about text processing.
> In cases where the GIL does cause problems, it's usually better to
> consider changing the application design and use asynchronous processing
> with a single threaded design or a multi-process design where each of
> the processes only uses a low number of threads (20-50 per process).
The "GIL problem" is much easier to analyze than most Python developers
using Linux might think:
- Windows has no fork system call. SunOS used to have a very slow fork
system call. The majority of Java developers worked with Windows or Sun,
and learned to work with threads.
For which the current summary is:
- The GIL sucks because Windows has no fork.
Which some might say is the equivalent of:
- Windows sucks.
Sturla
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