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On Jul 12, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Jeremy Dunck <jdu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Jeremy Dunck <jdu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> ... >>>> Python's major weakness, in this multicore age, is the global >>>> interpreter lock -- has there been any progress on creating a viable >>>> Python breed that has true concurrency? >>> >>> FWIW, Jython and IronPython don't suffer from the GIL. >>> >>> CPython chooses to not penalize single-threaded performance in order >>> to boost multi-threaded. The GIL-removal approaches tried so far have >>> been based on finer-grained locks, which have single-threaded >>> overhead. >> >> Sounds like the interpreter is guarding global mutable state that is >> mutated during ordinary program execution (and not just during >> application bootstrap when the equivalents of defs and defns are run >> to populate namespaces). Perhaps a deeper redesign is in order? > > Perhaps, but I think the more likely outcome is that PyPy becomes the > "standard" interpreter. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
