On 2011-07-20, Thomas Jollans <t...@jollybox.de> wrote: >> 5. No particular GUI thread synchronization is needed -- Python has a >> GIL. > > That's where you're wrong: the GIL is not a feature of Python. It is an > unfortunate implementation detail of current versions of CPython. (and > PyPy, apparently)
And there are always people trying to figure out how to get rid of it. So far the cures have been worse than the disease, but that may not always be the case... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ... the HIGHWAY is at made out of LIME JELLO and gmail.com my HONDA is a barbequeued OYSTER! Yum! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list