On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Sebastian Krause <sebast...@realpath.org> wrote: > How is the GIL situation with subinterpreters these days, is the > long-term goal still "solving multi-core Python", i.e. using > multiple CPU cores from within the same process? Or is it mainly > used for isolation?
The GIL is still process-global. The goal is indeed to change this to support actual multi-core parallelism. However, the benefits of interpreter isolation are certainly a win otherwise. :) -eric _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
