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Tue May 18 08:45:41 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-May/100153.html

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 15:05, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2010 14:47:25 +0200
> Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 14:12, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 17 May 2010 08:28:08 +0200
>> > Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> But the scheduler is so simplistic it ends up fighting with the
>> >> OS scheduler, and a large amount of CPU time is used up switching
>> >> instead of executing.
>> >
>> > This is already fixed with py3k.
>>
>> Are you referring to the "New GIL"?
>
> Yes.

At has been shown, it also in certain cases will race with the OS
scheduler, so this is not already fixed, although apparently improved,
if I understand correctly.

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