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

Matthieu Brucher matthieu.brucher at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 21:48:08 CET 2008


2008/11/3 <skip at pobox.com>:

>> 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?

It's Google webbrowser ;)

Matthieu Brucher

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? Skip


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