Will Python 3.0 remove the global interpreter lock (GIL)

[Eduardo O. Padoan]

On 9/2/07, llothar <llothar at web.de> wrote:
> I'm afraid that the GIL is killing the usefullness of python for some
> types of applications now where 4,8 oder 64 threads on a chip are here
> or comming soon.
>
> What is the status about that for the future of python?
>
> I know that at the moment allmost nobody in the scripting world has
> solved this problem, but it bites and it bites hard. Only groovy as a
> Java Plugin has support but i never tried it. Writing an interpreter
> that does MT this seems to be extremely difficult to do it right, with
> lots of advanced stuff like CAS and lock free programming.
>
> Even Smalltalk and Common Lisp didn't get it until know (with the
> exception of certain experiments).


No. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=211430

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