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Re:Why Not Python - the GIL hinders concurrency by dakimov on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @02:52PM (#5986705)
Orly? If your language is handicapped maybe. In normal languages you have no problems with threads, and the assertion that multiprocessing is the way makes no sense.
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Re:Why Not Python - the GIL hinders concurrency by lmm on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @05:21PM (#5987612)
It's basically impossible to reason about the correctness of any nontrivial multithreaded program.
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Re:Why Not Python - the GIL hinders concurrency by Nursie on Thursday July 04, 2013 @06:45AM (#5990029)
This is true of all programs not written in Z notation...
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