Status of Python threading support (GIL removal)?

[Christian Heimes]

Aahz wrote:
> In article <157e0345-74e0-4144-a2e6-2b4cc854ce37 at z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>,
> Carl Banks  <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I wish Pythonistas would be more willing to acknowledge the (few)
>> drawbacks of the language (or implementation, in this case) instead of
>> all this rationalization.  
> 
> Please provide more evidence that Pythonistas are unwilling to
> acknowledge the drawbacks of the GIL.  I think you're just spreading FUD.
> The problem is that discussions about the GIL almost invariably include
> false statements about the GIL, and I'm certainly not going to hamper my
> writing to always include the caveats about GIL drawbacks while
> correcting the wrong information.

Aahz, my magic pixie dust bag is empty. Do you have some spare dust to
remove the cursed GIL all alone? :p

Christian