[web2py] Re: new GIL bug

2010-02-17 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Feb 17, 5:24 pm, mdipierro wrote: > You are right this not a reason not to move. The main reason is > backward compatibility. In general 3.x seems to be slower than 2.x for > data intensive processes. Am I wrong? The Python 3.X stream is getting better performance wise and the GIL changes th

[web2py] Re: new GIL bug

2010-02-16 Thread mdipierro
You are right this not a reason not to move. The main reason is backward compatibility. In general 3.x seems to be slower than 2.x for data intensive processes. Am I wrong? On Feb 17, 12:05 am, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > On Feb 17, 4:20 pm, mdipierro wrote: > > > Look at this bug report > > >http

[web2py] Re: new GIL bug

2010-02-16 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Feb 17, 4:20 pm, mdipierro wrote: > Look at this bug report > > http://bugs.python.org/issue7946 > > specifically look at the benchmarks at the bottom. This kind of bugs > affects web applications since they have threads with lots of IO.  One > more reason to stay with python 2.5 for now. Fo