On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 20:21:56 -0700 Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > If you need shared-memory threads, on multiple cores, for CPU-bound > logic, where the logic is implemented in Python, then yeah, you > basically need a free-threaded implementation of Python. Jython is > such an implementation. PyPy could be if anyone were interested in > funding it [1], but apparently no-one is. Probably removing the GIL > from CPython is impossible. (I'd be happy to be proven wrong.)
It's not that it's impossible, it's that everyone trying to remove it ended up with a 30-40% slowdown in a single-threaded mode (*). Perhaps Larry manages to do better, though ;-) (*) a figure which I assume is highly workload-dependent Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
