Sturla Molden wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Sturla Molden wrote:
>> However, AFAIK the simplified GIL API does not suport multiple
>> interpreters, right?
>>
>> Could we do it better?
> 
> That is correct. It does not support multiple interpreters.
> 
> Sub-interpreters are a misfeature of CPython anyway. All sorts of weird
> things can happen when they are used. They are not completely isolated,
> and many extension modules do not honor them. Sub-interpreters are not
> useful like .NET appdomains, Java isolates, or tcl threads.

That's mainly because the whole infrastructure for making them useful is
only available in Py3.

http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/173

Stefan
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