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September 2007

Sep
12
2007

Suggestion for removing the Python Global Interpreter Lock

This post is inspired by Guido van Rossum’s post on Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). There has been some recent buzz on efforts to remove the GIL in Python 3000 to enable real threading of applications in an effort take advantage of the trend towards multi-core systems.
This is a hard problem (as evidenced by Greg [...]