Tim Peters wrote:
>
> For purposes of computational parallelism (more my background than
> Guido's -- the idea that you might want to use a thread to avoid
> blocking on I/O was novel to me <wink>), the global interpreter lock
> renders Python useless except for prototyping, so there's not much
> point digging into the hundreds of higher-level parallelism models
> that have been developed.
Well, maybe. I'm still hoping to prove you at least partly wrong one of
these years. ;-)
(The long-term plan for my BCD module is to turn it into a C extension
that releases the GIL. If that's successful, I'll start working on ways
to have Numeric release the GIL.)
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