On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:58 AM, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: <snip> > On that note, I went to a talk at Stanford yesterday by one of the > designers of Intel's Nelahem core. The four-core, eight thread > version is out now. The six-core, twelve thread version is working; > the speaker has one in his lab. The eight-core, sixteen thread version > is some months away. This isn't an expensive CPU; this is Intel's > "converged" mainstream product. (Although there will be a whole range > of "economy" and "performance" versions, all with the same core but > with some stuff turned off.) > > Python isn't ready for this. Not with the GIL.
Is any language, save perhaps Erlang, really ready for it? Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list