threading and multicores, pros and cons

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    Maric> Le mercredi 14 février 2007 16:24, garrickp at gmail.com a écrit :
    >> "Some time back, a group did remove the GIL from the python core, and
    >> implemented locks on the core code to make it threadsafe. Well, the
    >> problem was that while it worked, the necessary locks it made single
    >> threaded code take significantly longer to execute."

    Maric> Very interesting point, this is exactly the sort of thing I'm
    Maric> looking for. Any valuable link on this ?

Google for "python free threading stein" then click the first link.

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