Hi, > I've never heard > someone complain that the GIL is in the way for these types of apps.
I've never said so either. I was just saying that it can be useful to mix cooperative threading and preemptive threading in the same app, i.e. have different domains of cooperative threading which are preemptively scheduled by the OS. That has nothing to do with the GIL, I think (but I don't know much in Python internals). For instance the mix between Twisted and GUI event loops is a very common topic on the twisted mailing-list, because people have trouble getting it right inside a single system thread. The Twisted people have started advocating something called the ThreadedSelectReactor, which I haven't looked at but whose name suggests that some operations are performed in a helper system thread. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
