On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:42 -0800, Ken Simpson wrote: > Alas, if only the Perl interpreter was truly thread safe and did not > clone a new interpreter for each thread, we could just use > threads... Those Python people have it good in some ways.
Not that good really. As I understand it, the Python interpreter has a global lock when using threads. That's probably part of the reason why the most popular server framework for Python, Twisted, is single- threaded. - Perrin
