> On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:45:46AM -0700, Hong Zhang wrote: > >Python uses global lock for multi-threading. It is reasonable for io thread, > >which blocks most of time. It will completely useless for CPU intensive > >programs or large SMP machines. > > It might be useless in theory. In practice it isn't, because most > CPU-intensive tasks are pushed down into C code anyway, and C code can > release the single interpreter lock while it's crunching away.
That does not mean Python is a high performance MT language. It just gives the problem to C. In that sense, every language is about to have the speed, since we can just write everything in C and call it, and we are blazing fast everywhere, .NET? Hong
