[SciPy-user] Re: [AstroPy] Re: gui/thread issues

[Perry Greenfield]

On May 23, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
>
> The issues with the GIL are still there, so any long-running command 
> which doesn't release the GIL will still block.  But it does give some 
> advantages.
>
>
Isn't that mainly an issue as to whether things can run concurrently? 
As far as event handling, even when the GIL blocks, there still should 
be thread switches on a regular basis within Python code so that even 
though only one thread runs at a time, the events will be handled 
during most long-running functions (perhaps not long-running extension 
functions). But maybe I'm mixed up on that.

Perry