On Sep 17, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Andre Meyer wrote:While I understand the difficulties in removing the GIL and thepotential negative effect on single-threaded applications I would very much encourage discussion to seriously consider removing the GIL (maybeoptionally) in Py3k. If not, what alternatives would you suggest?Brett Cannon's sandboxing work (which aims to provide first-class support for multiple interpreters in the same process for security reasons) also seems like a potentially fruitful approach to distributing processing to multiple cores:- use threads to perform blocking I/O in parallel - use multiple interpreters to perform Python execution in parallel
... except when you use extensions that use the PyGILState APIs, those don't work with multiple interpreters :-(.
Ronald
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