On 2009-09-07, Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> CPython's GIL means that multithreading on multiple >> processors/cores has limitations. Each interpreter has its own >> GIL, so processor-intensive applications work better using the >> multiprocessing module than with the threading module. > > I believe you will find the above is incorrect - even with > multiple interpreter states you still have a single GIL.
Please explain how multiple processes, each with a separate Python interpreter, share a single GIL. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
