On Apr 18, 2008, at 7:00 AM, Ted Roche wrote:

> The Global Interpreter Lock is a design feature of Python.

        There was an implementation that was tried several years ago that  
removed the GIL and instead relied on C-level locking. It ran 2-3  
times slower.

        I've been impressed with what I've been reading about Stackless  
Python, but haven't yet had a project to play with it.

-- Ed Leafe





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