Hi, Jesse Noller <jnoller <at> gmail.com> writes: > If python were to have free threading, courtesy of a lack > of the GIL, it would help those people quite a bit. Sometimes you just > need shared state. Myself? I used multiprocess *and* threads all the > time for various reasons.
I think it is important to remind that the GIL doesn't prevent (almost) true multithreading. The only thing it prevents is full use of multi-CPU resources in a single process. But if you are using threads to reduce latencies rather than increase throughput, the GIL isn't really an obstacle (it probably makes things a bit worse than a free-threading scenario, but not that much; and you can tweak sys.setcheckinterval()). 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
