[Python-Dev] Fwd: Removal of GIL through refcounting removal. (original) (raw)

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Mon Nov 3 21:45:45 CET 2008 

>> 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".

Josiah> Which is, arguably, silly.  As we've seen in the last 2 months
Josiah> with Chrome, multiple processes for a single "program" is
Josiah> actually a pretty good idea.

I have no idea what Chrome is. Is it a CPU-intensive algorithm which can be parallelized?

Josiah> With the multiprocessing module in the standard library offering
Josiah> a threading-like interface, people no longer have any excuses
Josiah> for not fully exploiting their multiple cores in Python.

Except for communication overhead caused by replacing shared memory with I/O?

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