On 9/21/05, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reality is threads were invented as a low overhead way of easily > implementing concurrent applications... ON A SINGLE PROCESSOR. Taking > into account threading's limitations and objectives, Python's GIL is the > best way to support threads.
QOTF candidate! (I wonder if this thread could be summarized into a PEP we can use instead of future discussions rehashing the same issues?) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
