python threads and the linuxthread pthread library

[Joseph A Knapka]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> [anton wilson]
> > ...
> > Is the Python Virtual Machine it's own thread?
> 
> No.  All threads run in the PVM, but the GIL serializes their PVM time.

Does Jython lift this limitation, by any chance? Or is
the GIL a universal and unchangable Python artifact?

Thanks,

-- Joe