On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 07:19 -0800, David Leimbach wrote: > My knowledge on this subject is about 8 or 9 years old, so check with your > local Python guru.... > > > The last I'd heard about Python's threading is that it was cooperative > only, and that you couldn't get real parallelism out of it. It serves > as a means to organize your program in a concurrent manner. > > > In other words no two threads run at the same time in Python, even if > you're on a multi-core system, due to something they call a "Global > Interpreter Lock".
I believe GIL is as present in Python nowadays as ever. On a related note: does anybody know any sane interpreted languages with a decent threading model to go along? Stackless python is the only thing that I'm familiar with in that department. Thanks, Roman.
