Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:56:25 -0600, S.Mohideen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >> 4) Acheive true parallelism and performance by getting rid of the >> middle-man Interpreter and GIL. > > Is the GIL really an artifact of the interpreter? > In so far as only the CPython interpreter has one, I'd have to say "yes" to this. It's used to make various operations trivially thread-safe, which allows large speed gains in the programming.
A long time ago Greg Stein produced a patch that removed the need for the GIL, but nobody seemed to want to pay the penalty it extracted in speed reduction, so it languished unadopted. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden Recent Ramblings http://holdenweb.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
