Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy [video]

Re:Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy [video] by needusername on Monday June 06, 2016 @03:14AM (#11845148)

I have been subjected to more than a decade of Python propaganda about the GIL how it is a good thing because:

* it prevents deadlocks

* it prevents livelocks

* it means you don't have to lock when you share across threads

and how it's not a big deal because

* you're IO-bound anyway

* you can easily write performance critical parts in C

* you can use multiple processes, in fact that's better design anyway

So I would have asked more critical questions. Feel free to call that trolling if you want.

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Re:Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy [video] by booop on Monday June 06, 2016 @06:35AM (#11845720)

It seems to be a common mindset among python developers. You often hear the reason you can't have something in Python is because it's theoretically impossible, impractical and too difficult - but then it happens in another language. I was convinced that dynamic languages would always be slow (see https://wiki.python.org/moin/Why%20is%20Python%20slower%20th...) but then Google gave us V8.

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