On 2/2/2010 9:02 PM, alex23 wrote:
On Feb 3, 9:02 am, John Nagle<na...@animats.com> wrote:I know there's a performance penalty for running Python on a multicore CPU, but how bad is it? I've read the key paper ("www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf"), of course.It's a shame that Python 3.x is dead to you, otherwise you'd be able to enjoy the new GIL implementation in 3.2: http://www.dabeaz.com/python/NewGIL.pdf Actually, it looks like you probably still can: + patch for 2.5.4: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/109929 + patch for 2.7? http://bugs.python.org/issue7753
The patch was rejected for 2.7 (and earlier) because it could break code as explained in the discussion. One would have to apply and compile their own binary.
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