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Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Fri Jun 19 07:39:20 EDT 2009 
>>>>> Jure Erznožnik <jure.erznoznik at gmail.com> (JE) wrote:

>JE> Digging further, I found this:
>JE> http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/10/does_python_have_a_concurrency.html

>JE> Looking up on this info, I found this:
>JE> http://docs.python.org/c-api/init.html#thread-state-and-the-global-interpreter-lock

>JE> If this is correct, no amount of threading would ever help in Python
>JE> since only one core / CPU could *by design* ever be utilized. Except
>JE> for the code that accesses *no* functions / memory at all.

It is not the design of the Python language, but of the *CPython*
implementation. And yes, it will not benefit from more than one core.

You should watch/read this:
  http://blip.tv/file/2232410
  http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf 

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