If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-07-22, Ron Garret <rNOSPAMon at flownet.com> wrote:
> In article <uRr9m.6558$ze1.5162 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
>  Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+thunder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> milanj:
>> 
>> > and all of them use native threads (python still use green threads ?)
>> 
>>    Python uses native threads.
>
> But then it adds the global interpreter lock, which completely 
> undermines the utility of native threads.  So yes, it uses native 
> threads, but it does not actually realize the benefits of that use.

Not all of the time. For library/extension calls that release
the GIL, it does.

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