Status of Python threading support (GIL removal)?
Jeremy Sanders
jeremy+complangpython at jeremysanders.net
Sun Jun 21 07:48:19 EDT 2009
Jesse Noller wrote:
> Sorry, you're incorrect. I/O Bound threads do in fact, take
advantage
> of multiple cores.
I don't know whether anyone else brought this up, but it looks
like Python has problems with even this form of threading
http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf
It's certainly a very interesting read if you're interested in
this subject.
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Jeremy Sanders
http://www.jeremysanders.net/
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