> The best way to make people stop complaining about the GIL and start > using process-based multiprogramming is to provide solid, standardized > support for process-based multiprogramming.
+100 Huge amounts of effort would have to be invested to remove the GIL for the benefit of threads. Not only would the effort be huge, the difficulty and complexity of writing extension modules would be increased. Regardless of the arguments about SMP systems and the GIL, Python should provide as much support for process-based multi-programming as it does for threading. How about sinking that same effort into better Python support for process-based multi-programming? All the categories that Simon suggested are great candidates for the targets of this effort. Are there any existing efforts that I don't know about? Jonathan LaCour http://cleverdevil.org _______________________________________________ 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
