Re:Perl 6 Introduction
by jnbiche on Saturday November 28, 2015 @09:16AM
(#10641101)
> GIL stands for the Global Interpreter Lock, which python has been criticized for a lot.
It's pretty clear the GP knows what a GIL is, he's wondering if Perl 6 is truly GIL-free, or if it "just" abstracts out the GIL using language primitives for a forking multiprocess system (already, that's a nice step, but it's not "GIL-free").
Re:Perl 6 Introduction
by gpvos on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:01AM
(#10641373)
(Side remark: it seems the comment has been edited, expanding it a lot. It was not clear to me initially. And anyway, it is good to have acronyms expanded for other readers.)
It's pretty clear the GP knows what a GIL is, he's wondering if Perl 6 is truly GIL-free, or if it "just" abstracts out the GIL using language primitives for a forking multiprocess system (already, that's a nice step, but it's not "GIL-free").
I'd like to know the same thing.