Prateek wrote: > Hi, > > Recently there was some talk on removing the GIL and even the BDFL has > written a blog post on it. > I was trying to come up with a scalable and backwards compatible > approach for how to do it. > > I've put my thoughts up in a blog post - and I'd really like to hear > what the community thinks of it. > Mainly it revolves around dedicating one core for executing > synchronized code and doing context switches instead of acquiring/ > releasing locks.
Where is the gain? Having just one core doesn't give you true parallelism - which is the main reason behind the cries for a GIL-less Python. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
