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On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 09:34:40 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> other's toes. In CPython, the latter is guaranteed by the GIL; the
> specific advantage of multiprocessing over threading is that each
> process has a separate GIL, and that's because all variables are
> separate.
>
	And (so far as I understand it) each process can claim its own CPU
core, whereas threads share the active core.
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