[Python-Dev] The endless GIL debate: why not remove thread support instead? (original) (raw)
Ivan Krstić krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu
Tue Dec 16 22:43:40 CET 2008
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On Dec 13, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
They were originally invented in 1965, on Multics (1970) they were used to perform compilation in the background. When Unix came along, it added address space separation, introducing what is now known as processes.
Yes, and a lot of the subsequent interest in threads came due to the
historically debilitating overhead of fork() on some important Unices,
notably Solaris.
-- Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org
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