Parallelization on muli-CPU hardware?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Oct 8 15:40:04 EDT 2004


In article <1glbyrn.4jt08j144wg1dN%aleaxit at yahoo.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Bryan Olson <fakeaddress at nowhere.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Guido did not impose the GIL lightly.  This is a hard problem.
>
>Sure.  I wonder what (e.g.) IronPython or Ruby do about it -- never
>studied the internals of either, yet.

Ruby doesn't have OS-level threading IIRC.
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