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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by llimllib on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @01:57PM (#299648)
> The problem would be the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock). You couldn't actually have more than 1 thread running at a time.

Not actually true; socket calls release the GIL when they're not active, as do many of python's C libraries. Especially the better-written standard ones.

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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by jmtulloss on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @01:59PM (#299654)
True, although I would argue that my statement is still correct. You cannot have more than 1 thread running simultaneously.

The GIL is not as big of a problem as most people see it, it only interferes with CPU bound, highly parallelizable tasks.

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