Tim Rowe wrote: > 2009/2/19 <rushen...@gmail.com>: >> Hi again >> >> I really want to imply that i am not in search of a perfect language. >> Python for programming productivity is a great language but there are >> some real world facts. Some people want a language that provides great >> flexibility. A language can provide threads and processes and >> programmer choose the way. I really believe that GIL is a design >> error. > > It's only an error if it gets in the way. It's the experience of a lot > of programmers that it doesn't, so it's not an error. > And it's not a feature of the language, rather of one or two implementations. Neither JPython not IronPython use a GIL to the best of my knowledge, so you are still quite at liberty to use them.
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