2009/10/11 Michael Sparks <spark...@gmail.com>: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 21:00:41 Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: >> with all the >> dependency-migration issues 3.x could definitely use some carrots. > .. >> everybody's favorate bugaboo, multicore parallelism. > > I know it's the upteen-thousandth time it's been discussed, but > removal of the GIL in 3.x would probably be pretty big carrots for > some. I know the arguments about performance hits on single core > systems etc, and the simplifications it brings, but given every entry > level machine these days is multicore, is it time to reconsider some > of those points ? Not here perhaps - python-ideas or c.l.p, but if > bigger carrots are wanted... Just saying. (As time goes on, lack of a > GIL in Ironpython makes it more attractive for multicore work)
Oh, I don't think the problem is that Python-dev is opposed to it in principle, but that someone has yet to submit a patch that doesn't affect single thread preformance and remains compatible with the C-API. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
