On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:39:57 -0700, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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. > > Perhaps the current wave of dual-core and quad-core CPUs in cheap > consumer products would change people's perceptions -- I wonder...
Maybe it would change /perceptions/, but would normal users suddenly start running things that are (a) performance-critical, (b) written in Python and (c) use algorithms that are possible to parallellize? I doubt it. (But I admit that I am a bit negative towards thread programming in general, and I have whined about this before.) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.dyndns.org> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
