[Python-Dev] Fwd: Removal of GIL through refcounting removal. (original) (raw)
Josiah Carlson josiah.carlson at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 19:50:21 CET 2008
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On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 3:51 PM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
Antoine> I think it is important to remind that the GIL doesn't prevent Antoine> (almost) true multithreading. The only thing it prevents is Antoine> full use of multi-CPU resources in a single process. I believe everyone here knows that. I believe what most people are clamoring for is to make "full use of their multi-CPU resources in a single process".
Which is, arguably, silly. As we've seen in the last 2 months with Chrome, multiple processes for a single "program" is actually a pretty good idea. With the multiprocessing module in the standard library offering a threading-like interface, people no longer have any excuses for not fully exploiting their multiple cores in Python.
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