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Re:The Reliability of Go by coldtea on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @10:17AM (#5704974)
>On the Python script, it sounds like the performance problems were more likely than not caused by inadequate use of any concurrency features rather than an inherent problem with Python The Language.

"Inadequate concurrency features" IS an inherent problem with Python The Language.

(Notice I didn't say "inadequate use of concurrency features", I said "inadequate concurrency features").

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Re:The Reliability of Go by Roboprog on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @10:46AM (#5705172)
It's been a while, but I remember that Python threads run into a global interpreter lock quite often, yes?
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Re:The Reliability of Go by bvdbijl on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @01:08PM (#5706294)
Yes, unless your code is very I/O bound using threads won't speed up your Python application
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