Re:First chapter of Kernighan and Donovan's new Go book [pdf]
by dragonwriter on Monday October 19, 2015 @01:42PM
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> Try that with a GIL, sure, multithreaded Python and Ruby is possible, but it's not for the faint hearted and not as easy to read.
As others have noted, the example use case is one where multithreading with a GIL/GVL isn't particularly problematic. Moreover, both Python and Ruby have GIL/GVL-free implementations (in Python's case, Python 2 only in Jython/IronPython; in Ruby's case, much more current in the language level supported, since current JRuby is Ruby 2.2-compatible.)
As others have noted, the example use case is one where multithreading with a GIL/GVL isn't particularly problematic. Moreover, both Python and Ruby have GIL/GVL-free implementations (in Python's case, Python 2 only in Jython/IronPython; in Ruby's case, much more current in the language level supported, since current JRuby is Ruby 2.2-compatible.)