Bryan Olson <fakeaddr...@nowhere.org> writes: > I'm a fan of lock-free data structure and software transactional > memory, but I'm also a realist. Heck, I'm one of this group's > outspoken advocates of threaded architectures. Theoretical > breakthroughs will happen, but in real world of today, threads are > great but GIL-less Python is a loser.
GIL-less Python (i.e. Jython) already exists and beats CPython in performance a lot of the time, including on single processors. Whether the GIL can be eliminated from CPython without massive rework to every extension module ever written is a separate question, of course. Jython can be viewed a proof of concept. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
