[Python-ideas] The future of Python parallelism. The GIL. Subinterpreters. Actors.

[Sebastian Krause]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> It was never extended beyond Windows, and a Windows-only solution
> doesn't meet the needs of a lot of folks interested in more efficient
> exploitation of multiple local CPU cores.

On the other hand Windows has a higher need for a better multi-core
story. A reasonable Unix-only solution already exists with fork() if
you don't need a lot of shared memory, multi-processing on Windows
is just not on the same level.