In article <[email protected]>, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > >Additionally, while I'm a fan of the simplicity of CPython's ref counter, >one serious side effect of it is that it requires the GIL, which >essentially means CPython is crippled on multi-core CPUs compared to non- >ref counting implementations.
Your bare "crippled" is an unfair overstatement. What you meant to write was that computational multi-threaded applications that don't use NumPy are crippled. Otherwise you're simply spreading FUD. -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Many customs in this life persist because they ease friction and promote productivity as a result of universal agreement, and whether they are precisely the optimal choices is much less important." --Henry Spencer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
