Matthew Webber wrote: >>>The GIL prevents Python from effectively running multiple threads on > > multiple processors. > > This statement is slightly misleading. You can run multiple threads on a > multi-processor system quite effectively, the limitation of the GIL is > simply that you can typically utilize only one processor at a time.
Yeah, that's what I meant by 'effectively' ;) Thanks for the clarification. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
