Re: threads and shared interpreter data structures

[Jeff Clites]

It sounds like an assumption here is that separate threads get separate 
interpreter instances. I would have thought that a typical 
multithreaded program would have one interpreter instance and multiple 
threads (sharing that instance). I would think of separate interpreter 
instances as the analog of separate independent processes (at the Unix 
level), and that threads would be something more lightweight than that. 
There would be _some_ structure which is per-thread, but not logically 
the whole interpreter.

JEff