On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:58:32 -0800, John Nagle wrote: > John Nagle wrote: > >> I look at this as Python's answer to multicore CPUs and "Go". > > On that note, I went to a talk at Stanford yesterday by one of the > designers of Intel's Nelahem core. The four-core, eight thread version > is out now. [...] > > Python isn't ready for this. Not with the GIL.
Pardon me, but Python is perfectly ready for this. Why aren't you using Jython or IronPython, if the GIL is such a drag on your use-case? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list