[Python-Dev] GIL, Python 3, and MP vs. UP

On 9/21/05, Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri.apana.org.au> wrote: > The reality is threads were invented as a low overhead way of easily > implementing concurrent applications... ON A SINGLE PROCESSOR. Taking > into account threading's limitations and objectives, Python's GIL is the > best way to support threads. QOTF candidate! (I wonder if this thread could be summarized into a PEP we can use instead of future discussions rehashing the same issues?) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)