On 7/29/2012 7:12 PM, Rodrick Brown wrote: > Python is a glue language much like Perl was 10 years ago. Until the > GIL is fixed I doubt anyone will seriously look at Python as an option > for large enterprise standalone application development. The GIL is neither a bug to be fixed nor an inherent part of the language. It is a design choice for CPython. There are reasons the CPython devs have no intention of removing the GIL (at least in the near future). A recent outline of these reasons (written by one of the CPython devs) is here:
http://python-notes.boredomandlaziness.org/en/latest/python3/questions_and_answers.html#but-but-surely-fixing-the-gil-is-more-important-than-fixing-unicode -- CPython 3.3.0b1 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17803 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
