[python-win32] PyParallel - an experimental "multicore" fork of Python 3 for Windows

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

> On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:14 PM, Trent Nelson <trent at snakebite.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Bit off-topic, but just wanted to let people know about an experimental
> proof-of-concept fork of Python 3 I've been working on for the past
> couple of years called PyParallel: http://pyparallel.org.  It essentially
> gets around the GIL limitations and allows Python code to run simultaneously
> in multiple threads from within a single interpreter/process.
> 
> It's Windows only -- so I figured it might be of interest to this list.

Impressive.  Is the Windows only aspect because you used Windows proprietary thread APIs?  Or because there is something special about Windows thread mechanisms that doesn’t carry over to, say, POSIX pthread?  I assume the former, in other words it should be adaptable to standard thread architectures with some effort.

	paul