sturlamolden wrote: > Python has a GIL that impairs scalability on computers with more than > one processor. The problem seems to be that there is only one GIL per > process. Solutions to removing the GIL has always stranded on the need > for 'fine grained locking' on reference counts. I believe there is a > second way, which has been overlooked: Having one GIL per interpreter > instead of one GIL per process.
How would this handle python resources that a programmer would want to share among the threads? What facilities for IPC between the interpreters would be used? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
