Will multithreading make python less popular?

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Feb 19 19:15:22 EST 2009


Paul Rubin wrote:
> Tim Rowe <digitig at gmail.com> writes:
>>> I really believe that GIL is a design error.
>> It's only an error if it gets in the way. It's the experience of a lot
>> of programmers that it doesn't, so it's not an error.
> 
> [...]  Denying the
> problem's existence is not sensible.

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