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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:16:21 +1100
Subject: Re: Future of Pypy?
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> if you're running single-thread code on a single-core machine and
>> still complaining about the GIL, you have no clue.
>
> Even the Raspberry Pi has 4 cores now, and fancy smartphones have had
> them for years.  Single core cpu's are specialized and/or historical.

Or virtual. I have a quad-core + hyperthreading CPU, but most of my
VMs (in fact, all except the one that runs a Python buildbot, I
think!) are restricted to a single core. If you rent a basic cheap
machine from a cloud provider, you'll quite possibly be getting a
single core, too.

ChrisA