Poll: Will Python ever lose the GIL?

Posted by lacker on Sunday December 14, 2008 @03:23PM
from the you-decide dept.

The standard Python interpreter has a global interpreter lock (GIL) that prevents multithreaded parallel programming of the style you find in most programming languages. People have tried to remove this restriction, but failed because all the resulting lock acquisition is too slow. Will the GIL ever be removed?

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Poll

Yes. 1 vote

No, and it doesn't matter. 7 votes

No, and it is a serious problem. 12 votes

Re:Poll: Will Python ever lose the GIL? by morlockhq on Monday December 15, 2008 @09:29AM (#398348)

I should say that I don't think it will be removed by Guido. He doesn't appear to see a need. However, if the main developers in the Python community decide it is necessary and does the work, it will be removed.

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Re:Poll: Will Python ever lose the GIL? by ErrantX on Sunday December 14, 2008 @05:12PM (#397700)

It's my one major gripe with an almost perfect language: I spend so much of my time fighting round this problem it is silly :(

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Re:Poll: Will Python ever lose the GIL? by gaius on Sunday December 14, 2008 @06:23PM (#397757)

I voted "yes" because ever's a long time. But I won't be holding my breath :-(

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