global interpreter lock not working as it should

[jepler at unpythonic.net]

> On Tuesday 30 July 2002 07:18 pm, brueckd at tbye.com wrote:
> > Quick tangential question: if there's no blocking of any kind, why are you
> > using threads, anyway? Off the cuff thinking says this seems like a misuse
> > of them.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:48:40PM -0400, anton wilson wrote:
> For a real-time system. ;) It will work. It would just be nice if they 
> switched exactly every 10 byte codes becuase that means they only use about 
> 10 to 20 milliseconds each.

Realtime?  Really?  So can you tell me what the upper-bound on the runtime of
    >>> x = 3
on the hardware you're targeting?

Jeff