Re: what would you like to see in a 2nd edition Nutshell?

2004-12-30 Thread alecwy
Discussion of GIL and (in)ability to control thread priority. Thanks for asking! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: threading priority

2004-12-17 Thread alecwy
I googled as suggested, and the answer isn't crystal clear. My impression is that the problem is that a python thread must acquire the GIL in order to execute, and the strategy for deciding which thread should get the GIL when multiple threads are waiting for it is not based on priority. Is that