On 9/2/07, llothar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm afraid that the GIL is killing the usefullness of python for some > types of applications now where 4,8 oder 64 threads on a chip are here > or comming soon. > > What is the status about that for the future of python? > > I know that at the moment allmost nobody in the scripting world has > solved this problem, but it bites and it bites hard. Only groovy as a > Java Plugin has support but i never tried it. Writing an interpreter > that does MT this seems to be extremely difficult to do it right, with > lots of advanced stuff like CAS and lock free programming. > > Even Smalltalk and Common Lisp didn't get it until know (with the > exception of certain experiments).
No. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=211430 -- http://www.advogato.org/person/eopadoan/ Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/edcrypt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list