On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Calvin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone have theories or info on what changes will be required in Python
> apps in order to take advantage of the 2.7 concurrency stuff?
> Will there be code changes required, or will it just be an app.yaml flag
> that magically takes care of everything?

There was a plan to remove the GIL:

  
http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan#Global_Interpreter_Lock

But it died and the devs of Unladen Swallow moved on to Go:

  http://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospective.html

So don't expect magic. It would probably still be a mistake to pay for
a B8 backend instance, for example.

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