In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Seun Osewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think I've heard Guido say the last attempt at removing the Global >> Interpreter Lock (GIL) resulted in a Python that was much slower... > >What is it about Python that makes a thread-safe CPython version much >slower? Why doesn'ttrue threading slow down other languages like Perl >and Java? > >I'm thinking it might be the reference counting approach to memory >management... but what do you guys think is the reason? >
Crudely, Perl threading is fragile, and Java requires coding at a lower level. Memory management is indeed important, and arguably deserves at least as much attention as multi-core accomodations. I know of no easy gains from here on, just engineering trade-offs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
