[Tutor] Threading + socket server (blocking IO)

[Kent Johnson]

Matthew Webber wrote:
>>>The GIL prevents Python from effectively running multiple threads on
> 
> multiple processors. 
> 
> This statement is slightly misleading. You can run multiple threads on a
> multi-processor system quite effectively, the limitation of the GIL is
> simply that you can typically utilize only one processor at a time.

Yeah, that's what I meant by 'effectively' ;)

Thanks for the clarification.

Kent