Re: Status of Python threading support (GIL removal)?

2009-06-19 Thread Martin von Loewis
Digging through my problem, I discovered Python isn't exactly thread safe and to solve the issue, there's this Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in place. It's the opposite: Python is exactly thread safe precisely because it has the GIL in place. Is there any other way to work around the issue

Re: Status of Python threading support (GIL removal)?

2009-06-19 Thread Martin von Loewis
Digging through my problem, I discovered Python isn't exactly thread safe and to solve the issue, there's this Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in place. It's the opposite: Python is exactly thread safe precisely because it has the GIL in place. Is there any other way to work around the issue