Embedding Python, threading and scalability

Wed Jul 9 23:14:47 EDT 2003

>I asked once and was told it was best fixed by removing the
documentation
>which mentioned it. Others also stated it was unlikely to be fixed.

This can be fixed. Give Guido a SMP machine. I'm sure the threading
issue would shortly be resolved.

Seriously though, this is an issue, which is a major hurdle Python *has*
to cross if it is ever going to be seriously considered for use on large
projects, on large SMP hardware.

SimonW.